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.

For the Leader; upon the Gittith. A Psalm of David. O LORD, our Lord, how glorious is Thy name in all the earth! whose majesty is rehearsed above 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 hast Thou founded strength, because of Thine adversaries; that Thou mightest 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 behold Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which Thou hast established;

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 art mindful of him? and the son of man, that Thou thinkest of him?

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

Yet Thou hast made him but little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

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

Thou hast made him to have dominion over the works of Thy hands; Thou hast put all things under His feet:

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

Sheep and oxen, all of them, 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 fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea; whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

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

O LORD, our Lord, how glorious is Thy name in all the earth!