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 music director. On the gittith. A psalm of David. Lord, our Lord, your magnificent reputation fills the earth! Your majesty is greater than the heavens above,

2 From the mouths of infants and sucklings You have founded strength, Because of Your adversaries, To still an enemy and a self-avenger.

and is sung by the voices of children and infants. Your strength counters your opponents, silencing the enemy and the avenger.

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

When I contemplate the heavens that your hands made, the moon and stars that you placed there,

4 What [is] man that You remember him? The son of man that You inspect him?

What are human beings that you should concern yourself with them? What are people that you should care for them?

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

You created them a little lower than God, crowning them with glory and majesty.

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

You put them in charge of all that you made, giving them authority over everything:

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

the sheep, the cattle, and the wild animals,

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

the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea—everything that swims in the ocean.

9 YHWH, our Lord, How majestic [is] Your Name in all the earth!

Lord, our Lord, your magnificent reputation fills the earth!