Psalms 8:9 (ESV Strong's)
O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
Worthy of our Praise
God is majestic. The word for majestic first appears in the Exodus to proclaim how great God is and was over the gods of the Egyptians:
Exodus 15:11(ESV Strong's)
“Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods?
Who is like you, majestic in holiness,
awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders?
In this case it means “superior.” The word is used 29 times in the Old Testament and mostly in the poetry books, like the above. The writer of this song is trying to tell us that we should stop and praise God because He is might and powerful and superior to anything we can imagine.
We should stop to see how we use this word in our own day and age. We might say a mountain is majestic. We might say a man-made building is majestic. We might say a tornado or hurricane is majestic ... if it were not for their destruction. But, nothing on this earth compares to the majesty of God. This is why the writer ends this psalm with that word. The Lord, the Lord is MAJESTIC.
In this passage he claims that it is the “name” of the Lord that is Majestic. You can say a lot of peoples names, rulers from the past and present, but no one’s name carries the majesty of the Lord. We are to be the ones that proclaim His Majesty.
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