Psalms 8

1 O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth! who have set your glory above the heavens.

For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of David. O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! You have set Your glory above the heavens.

2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings have you ordained strength because of your enemies, that you might still the enemy and the avenger.

From the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise on account of Your adversaries, to silence the enemy and avenger.

3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—

4 What is man, that you are mindful of him? and the son of man, that you visit him?

what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?

5 For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and have crowned him with glory and honor.

You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor.

6 You made him to have dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet:

You made him ruler of the works of Your hands; You have placed everything under his feet:

7 All sheep and oxen, yes, and the beasts of the field;

all sheep and oxen, and even the beasts of the field,

8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

the birds of the air and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.

9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth!

O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth!