all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild, the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas. (vv. 3–8) This psalm is a commentary on the creation account. It explains what it means that humans are created in the image of God, as we learn in Genesis 1:27: “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” In antiquity, kings and potentates typically erected statues of themselves at strategic places