The presses. . .In Hebrew, Gittith, supposed to be a musical instrument. 8:2. O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is thy name in the whole earth! For thy magnificence is elevated above the heavens. 8:3. Out of the mouth of infants and of sucklings thou hast perfected praise, because of thy enemies, that thou mayst destroy the enemy and the avenger. 8:4. For I will behold thy heavens, the works of thy fingers: the moon and the stars which thou hast founded. 8:5. What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him? 8:6. Thou hast made him a little less than the angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honour: 8:7. And hast set him over the works of thy hands. 8:8. Thou hast subjected all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen: moreover, the beasts also of the fields. 8:9. The birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea, that pass through the paths of the sea. 8:10. O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is thy name in the whole earth! Psalms Chapter 9 Confitebor tibi, Domine. The church praiseth God for his protection against her enemies. 9:1. Unto the end, for the hidden things of the Son. A psalm for David. The hidden things of the Son. . .The humility and sufferings of Christ, the Son of God; and of good Christians, who are his sons by adoption; are called hidden things, with regard to the children of this world, who know not the value and merit of them. 9:2. I will give praise to thee, O Lord, with my whole heart: I will relate all thy wonders. 9:3. I will be glad, and rejoice in thee: I will sing to thy name, O thou most high. 9:4. When my enemy shall be turned back: they shall be weakened, and perish before thy face. 9:5. For thou hast maintained my judgment and my cause: thou hast sat on the throne, who judgest justice. 9:6. Thou hast rebuked the Gentiles, and the wicked one hath perished; thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever. 9:7. The swords of the enemy have failed unto the end: and their cities thou hast destroyed. Their memory hath perished with a noise: 9:8. But the Lord remaineth for ever. He hath prepared his throne in judgment: 9:9. And he shall judge the world in equity, he shall judge the people in justice. 9:10. And the Lord is become a refuge for the poor: a helper in due time in tribulation. 9:11. And let them trust in thee who know thy name: for thou hast not forsaken them that seek thee, O Lord. 9:12. Sing ye to the Lord, who dwelleth in Sion: declare his ways among the Gentiles: 9:13. For requiring their blood, he hath remembered them: he hath not forgotten the cry of the poor. 9:14. Have mercy on me, O Lord: see my humiliation which I suffer from my enemies. 9:15. Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death, that I may declare all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion.