The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 8:7

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

All sheep and oxen; literally, flocks and oxen, all of them. The domesticated animals are placed first, as most completely under man's actual dominion. Yea, and the beasts of the field; i.e. "and all other land animals" (comp.

Genesis 1:28; Genesis 9:2). If some were still unsubdued (2 Kings 17:25, 2 Kings 17:26; Job 40:24; Job 41:1-10), their subjugation was only a question of time (see Isaiah 11:6-9; Isaiah 65:25).

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