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 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,

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

the sheep, the cattle, and the wild animals,

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

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

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

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