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 chief musician; set to the gittith style. A psalm of David. Yahweh our Lord, how magnificent is your name in all the earth, you who reveal your glory in 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.

Out of the mouth of babies and infants you have established praise because of your enemies, so that you might silence both 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 look up at your heavens, which your fingers have made, 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?

Of what importance is the human race that you notice them, or mankind that you pay attention to them?

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

Yet you have made them only a little lower than the heavenly beings and have crowned them 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 make him to rule over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet:

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

all sheep and oxen, and even the animals 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 heavens, and the fish of the sea, everything that passes through the currents of the seas.

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

Yahweh our Lord, how magnificent is your name in all the earth!