Psalms 8

1 For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of David. O Jehovah, our Lord, How excellent is thy name in all the earth, Who hast set thy glory upon the heavens!

“To the chief musician upon Gittith, a psalm of David.” O Eternal One our Lord, how excellent is thy name on all the earth! thou who hast set thy majesty above the heavens.

2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established strength, Because of thine adversaries, That thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou founded [thy] might, because of thy opponents, that thou mightest bring to silence the enemy and him that seeketh vengeance.

3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

When I behold thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast established: —

4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou visitest him?

What is the mortal, that thou rememberest him? and the son of man, that thou thinkest of him:

5 For thou hast made him but little lower than God, And crownest him with glory and honor.

Yet thou hast made him but a little less than angels, and hast crowned him with honor and glory.

6 Thou makest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet:

Thou hast given him dominion over the works of thy hands; every thing hast thou placed beneath his feet:

7 All sheep and oxen, Yea, and the beasts of the field,

Flocks and herds altogether, and also the beasts of the field;

8 The birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, Whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

The birds of heaven, and the fishes of the sea, whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

9 O Jehovah, our Lord, How excellent is thy name in all the earth!

O Eternal One our Lord, how excellent is thy name on all the earth!