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.

Unto the end, for the presses: a psalm of David. O Lord our Lord, how admirable is thy name in the whole earth! For thy magnificence is elevated 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.

Out of the mouth of infants and of sucklings thou hast perfected praise, because of thy enemies, that thou mayst destroy the enemy and the avenger.

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

For I will behold thy heavens, the works of thy fingers: the moon and the stars which thou hast founded.

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 thou art mindful of him? or the son of man that thou visitest hi?

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

Thou hast made him a little less than the angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honour:

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

And hast set him over the works of thy hands.

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

Thou hast subjected all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen: moreover the beasts also of the fields.

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 fishes of the sea, that pass through the paths of the sea.

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

O Lord our Lord, how admirable is thy name in all the earth!