Psalms 8

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

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 sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

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 consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

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, that thou art mindful of him? and the son 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 than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

Yet you made them little less than divine, crowned them with glory and majesty,

6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

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

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

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

8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever 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, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

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