The same title is prefixed to Ps. 81:1, Ps. 84:1. Gittith also is supposed to be the name of a tune, or song, or instrument so called, because it was either invented or much used in Gath. Some render it for the wine-presses and say it was to be sung at the time of vintage.

Thy name, i.e. thy fame or glory, as it is explained in the next clause, and as the name commonly signifies, as Gen. 6:4, Eccles. 7:1, Phil. 2:9. And this glory of God is most eminent in the gospel and the work of redemption.

Babes and sucklings; either, 1. Properly such; for there is much of God’s glory seen in infants, in their conception and strange progress from small and contemptible beginnings, in their preservation and nourishment in the dark cell of the womb, in their bringing forth and bringing up, in providing…

Thy heavens; thine by creation, as it follows. Of thy fingers. i.e. of thy hand, as it is expressed, Ps. 102:25; a part being here put for the whole; God’s hand and finger being indifferently used to note his power, as Ex. 8:19, Luke 11:20;c.

What, i.e. how mean and inconsiderable a thing is man, if compared with thy glorious Majesty, who art so infinite in power and wisdom, as thou hast showed in the frame of the heavens, &c. Man, Heb.

Thou hast in and through Christ mercifully and wonderfully restored man to his primitive and happy estate, in which he was but one remove below the angels; from which he was fallen by sin. Hast crowned him, i.e.

Thou didst give all power and all things into his hands, Matt. 28:18, John 13:3. Thou hast put all things, both in heaven, where are the angels mentioned Ps. 8:5, and in the earth, air, and sea, as it follows; for nothing is excepted besides God, 1 Cor. 15:25, 1 Cor. 15:27, Heb. 2:8.

All sheep and oxen; here is no perfect enumeration, but under these are comprehended all other beasts, and much more men and angels. The beasts of the field, i.e.