Remember that Sandi Patti song "How Majestic?" Of course you do. "The Voice" made Psalm 8 memorable, by taking word-for-word the first verse of the eighth Psalm and making a song out of it. And what's a gittith, you ask? I asked the same question, and found out it is a stringed instrument of some kind, and is derived from the words literally meaning "on the wine fats." So perhaps a wine fat is like a skein, and maybe the gittith is made from that skin. And no, I don't believe it is the KJV translation of "guitar."
The second verse took a couple of reads to figure out what was being said.
"From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise because of your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger."
Near as I can figger, the children praise God because He is their deliverer and strength in the face of God's enemies. When they offer praise to God from an early age, who can stand against them? I still don't think I fully grasp this verse.
I recognize verse 4 as the beginning of Michael Gungor's "Friend of God." While I appreciate how the lines are used in the song to describe God's friendship with men, in the Psalm David has compared humanity on the short side of the creation of things like the heavens, the moon and the stars. With such awesome and amazing things hanging in the heavens, why would God devote any time or mind to mere men? Despite being created lower than "the heavenly beings" (God or angels, I assume), men were put in a position to have dominion over creation (Ge. 1:28). These are things David takes joy and comfort in, knowing his God has created these things.
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