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.

To the Overseer, 'On the Gittith.' A Psalm of David. Jehovah, our Lord, How honourable Thy name in all the earth! Who settest thine honour on 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 infants and sucklings Thou hast founded strength, Because of Thine adversaries, To still an enemy and a self-avenger.

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

For I see Thy heavens, a work of Thy fingers, Moon and stars that Thou didst establish.

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 rememberest him? The son of man that Thou inspectest him?

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

And causest him to lack a little of Godhead, And with honour and majesty compassest him.

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

Thou dost cause him to rule Over the works of Thy hands, All Thou hast placed under his feet.

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

Sheep and oxen, all of them, And also beasts 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.

Bird of the heavens, and fish of the sea, Passing through the paths of the seas!

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

Jehovah, our Lord, How honourable Thy name in all the earth!