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 YHWH our Sovereign, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory 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 ordained strength because of thine enemies, 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 consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast 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 art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

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

For thou hast made him a 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 madest 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,

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 fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

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

O YHWH our Sovereign, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!