Psalms 8

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

Kumqondisi wokuhlabela. Ngendlela yegithithi. Ihubo likaDavida. Oh Thixo, Thixo wethu, ibizo lakho libabazeka kangaka emhlabeni wonke! Uyibekile inkazimulo yakho ngaphezulu emazulwini.

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.

Ukumisile ukudunyiswa yizindebe zabantwana lensane ngenxa yezitha zakho, ukuze uthulise isitha lomphindiseli.

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

Nxa nginakana ngamazulu akho, umsebenzi weminwe yakho, inyanga lezinkanyezi ozibeke endaweni yazo,

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

uyini umuntu osungaze uzihluphe ngaye na, indodana yomuntu ukuba uyinanze?

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

Wamenza waba mncinyazana kulezingilosi, wamethesa umqhele wodumo lobukhosi.

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

Wamenza umbusi phezu kwemisebenzi yezandla zakho; wabeka zonke izinto ngaphansi kwezinyawo zakhe:

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

yonke imihlambi yezimvu leyenkomo lezinyamazana zeganga,

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

izinyoni zasemkhathini lenhlanzi zolwandle, konke okuntsheza emanzini olwandle.

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

Oh Thixo, Thixo wethu, ibizo lakho libabazeka kangaka emhlabeni wonke!