8:9 O Lord, our Lord, 1
how magnificent 2 is your reputation 3 throughout the earth! 4
1 tn The plural form of the title emphasizes the
2 tn Or “awesome, majestic.”
3 tn Heb “name,” which here stands metonymically for God’s reputation.
4 sn Using the poetic device of inclusio, the psalmist ends the psalm the way he began it. The concluding refrain is identical to v. 1.