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,

To the choirmaster on the Gittith a psalm of David. O Yahweh lord our how! majestic [is] name your in all the earth [the one] who set! splendor your 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.

From [the] mouth of children - and suckling-children you have established strength on account of opposers your to put an end to an enemy and an avenger.

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

If I will see heavens your [the] works fingers your [the] moon and [the] stars which you have established.

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

What? [is] humankind that you will remember him and a son of humankind that you will pay attention to him.

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

And you have made lack him little from God and honor and majesty you crown him.

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

You make rule him over [the] works of hands your everything you have put under feet his.

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

Sheep and cattle all of them and also [the] animals of [the] field.

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

[the] bird[s] of [the] heavens And [the] fish of the sea [that which] passes through [the] paths of [the] seas.

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

O Yahweh lord our how! majestic [is] name your in all the earth.