Psalms 8

1 TO THE OVERSEER. ON THE GITTITH. A PSALM OF DAVID. YHWH, our Lord, How majestic [is] Your Name in all the earth, Who have set Your splendor on 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 From the mouths of infants and sucklings You have founded strength, Because of Your adversaries, To still an enemy and a self-avenger.

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

3 For I see Your heavens, a work of Your fingers, [The] moon and stars that You established.

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 remember him? The son of man that You inspect him?

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

5 You make him a little lower than the gods [[or God]], And surround him with glory and majesty.

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

6 You cause him to rule Over the works of Your hands, You have placed all under his feet.

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

7 Sheep and oxen, all of them, And also beasts of the field,

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

8 Bird of the heavens, and fish of the sea, Passing 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 YHWH, our Lord, How majestic [is] Your Name in all the earth!

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