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 chief musician; set to the gittith style. A psalm of David. Yahweh our Lord, how magnificent is your name in all the earth, you who reveal your glory in the heavens above.

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.

Out of the mouth of babies and infants you have established praise because of your enemies, so that you might silence both the enemy and the avenger.

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

When I look up at your heavens, which your fingers have made, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

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

Of what importance is the human race that you notice them, or mankind that you pay attention to them?

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

Yet you have made them only a little lower than the heavenly beings and have crowned them with glory and honor.

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

You make him to rule over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet:

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

all sheep and oxen, and even the animals of the field,

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

the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, everything that passes through the currents of the seas.

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

Yahweh our Lord, how magnificent is your name in all the earth!