J. N. Darby

To the end of Psalm 8 it gives an idea of this; the five following (i.e., Psalms 3 to 7) giving the moral condition of the Remnant, power not having yet come in; and Psalm 8 giving the larger extent of Son of Man glory, consequent on Messiah's rejection - these, and also the election of Zion, which is material in the historical course of dealings, for Zion is the holy hill. Hence David so importantly brings out all the course of them; he was the godly man and rejected king, though anointed in the midst of the ungodly, and in a certain sense, subdued the heathen, when delivered from the strivings of the people. (Compare Isaiah 50, noting the end, and then Psalms 51 and 52.)