Psalms 8

1 Unto the end. For the oil and wine presses. A Psalm of David. O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is your name throughout all the earth! For your magnificence is elevated above the heavens.

For the leader: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by a stringed instrument. Lord our God! How glorious in all the earth is your name! Your praise reaches as high as the heavens,

2 Out of the mouths of babes and infants, you have perfected praise, because of your enemies, so that you may destroy the enemy and the revenger.

from the mouths of children and infants. You have built a fortress against your enemies, to silence the foe and the rebel.

3 For I will behold your heavens, the works of your fingers: the moon and the stars, which you have founded.

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set there,

4 What is man, that you are mindful of him, or the son of man, that you visit him?

what are mortals, that you think of them, humans, that you visit them?

5 You reduced him to a little less than the Angels; you have crowned him with glory and honor,

Yet you made them little less than divine, crowned them with glory and majesty,

6 and you have set him over the works of your hands.

made them lord of the works of your hands, put all things under their feet –

7 You have subjected all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and in addition: the beasts of the field,

sheep and oxen, all of them; and the wild beasts also:

8 the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, which pass through the paths of the sea.

birds of the air, and fish of the sea, and all that crosses the paths of the ocean.

9 O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is your name throughout all the earth!

Lord our God! How glorious in all the earth is your name!