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: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by a stringed instrument. Lord our God! How glorious in all the earth is your name! Your praise reaches as high as 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 built a fortress against your enemies, to silence the foe and the rebel.

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

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set there,

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

what are mortals, that you think of them, humans, that you visit them?

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

Yet you made them little less than divine, crowned 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:

made them lord of the works of your hands, put all things under their feet –

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

sheep and oxen, all of them; and the wild beasts also:

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

birds of the air, and fish of the sea, and all that crosses the paths of the ocean.

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

Lord our God! How glorious in all the earth is your name!