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

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, The moon and the stars which thou hast ordained:

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, And the son of man, that thou carest for him?

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

Yet thou hast made him little lower than God; Thou hast 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:

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

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

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

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, And whatever passeth through the paths of the deep.

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

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