Psalms 8

1 To him that excelleth on Gittith. A Psalme of Dauid. O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy Name in all the worlde! which hast set thy glory aboue the heauens.

For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of David. O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! You have set Your glory above the heavens.

2 Out of the mouth of babes and suckelings hast thou ordeined strength, because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemie and the auenger.

From the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise on account of Your adversaries, to silence the enemy and avenger.

3 When I beholde thine heauens, euen the workes of thy fingers, the moone and the starres which thou hast ordeined,

When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—

4 What is man, say I, that thou art mindefull of him? and the sonne of man, that thou visitest him?

what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?

5 For thou hast made him a little lower then God, and crowned him with glory and worship.

You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor.

6 Thou hast made him to haue dominion in the workes of thine hands: thou hast put all things vnder his feete:

You made him ruler of the works of Your hands; You have placed everything under his feet:

7 All sheepe and oxen: yea, and the beastes of the fielde:

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

8 The foules of the ayre, and the fish of the sea, and that which passeth through the paths of the seas.

the birds of the air and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.

9 O Lord our Lord, howe excellent is thy Name in all the world!

O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth!