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,

“For the leader of the music; to be accompanied with the gittith. A psalm of David.” O Jehovah, our Lord! How excellent is thy name in all the earth! Thou hast set thy 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 mouths of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained praise, To put thine adversaries to shame, And to silence the enemy and avenger.

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

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, The moon and the stars which thou hast 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 thou art mindful of him, And the son of man, that thou carest for him?

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

Yet thou hast made him little lower than God; Thou hast crowned him with glory and honor.

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

Thou hast given him dominion over the works of thy hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet, —

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

All sheep and oxen, Yea, and the beasts of the forest;

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

The birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea, And whatever passeth through the paths of the deep.

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

O Jehovah, our Lord, How excellent is thy name in all the earth!