Psalms 8

1 For the music director. On the gittith. A psalm of David. Lord, our Lord, your magnificent reputation fills the earth! Your majesty is greater than the heavens above,

O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth! who have set your glory above the heavens.

2 and is sung by the voices of children and infants. Your strength counters your opponents, silencing the enemy and the avenger.

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings have you ordained strength because of your enemies, that you might still the enemy and the avenger.

3 When I contemplate the heavens that your hands made, the moon and stars that you placed there,

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

4 What are human beings that you should concern yourself with them? What are people that you should care for them?

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

5 You created them a little lower than God, crowning them with glory and majesty.

For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and have crowned him with glory and honor.

6 You put them in charge of all that you made, giving them authority over everything:

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

7 the sheep, the cattle, and the wild animals,

All sheep and oxen, yes, and the beasts of the field;

8 the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea—everything that swims in the ocean.

The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

9 Lord, our Lord, your magnificent reputation fills the earth!

O LORD our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth!