Psalms 8

1 For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of David. O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! You have set Your glory above the heavens.

O Jehovah, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth, who has set thy glory upon the heavens!

2 From the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise on account of Your adversaries, to silence the enemy and avenger.

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou have perfected praise, because of thine adversaries, that thou might still the enemy and the avenger.

3 When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou have ordained,

4 what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?

what is man that thou remember him? And the son of man that thou succor him?

5 You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor.

For thou have made him but little lower than agents, and crowned him with glory and honor.

6 You made him ruler of the works of Your hands; You have placed everything under his feet:

Thou make him to have dominion over the works of thy hands. Thou have put all things under his feet.

7 all sheep and oxen, and even the beasts of the field,

All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field,

8 the birds of the air and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.

the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

9 O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth!

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