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The Lord is high above all nations
    and his glory above the heavens.(A)

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Psalm 8

Divine Majesty and Human Dignity

To the leader: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of David.

O Lord, our Sovereign,
    how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory above the heavens.(A)

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The Lord is great in Zion;
    he is exalted over all the peoples.(A)

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For you, O Lord, are most high over all the earth;
    you are exalted far above all gods.(A)

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The Worship God Demands

66 Thus says the Lord:
Heaven is my throne,
    and the earth is my footstool;
so what kind of house could you build for me,
    what sort of place for me to rest?(A)

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22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,
    and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers,
who stretches out the heavens like a curtain
    and spreads them like a tent to live in,(A)

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17 All the nations are as nothing before him;
    they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.(A)

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15 Even the nations are like a drop from a bucket
    and are accounted as dust on the scales;
    see, he takes up the isles like fine dust.(A)

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13 Let them praise the name of the Lord,
    for his name alone is exalted;
    his glory is above earth and heaven.(A)

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10 For your steadfast love is as high as the heavens;
    your faithfulness extends to the clouds.(A)

11 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens.
    Let your glory be over all the earth.(B)

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27 “But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Even heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, much less this house that I have built!(A)

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