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!

To him that excelleth on Gittith. A Psalme of Dauid. O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy Name in all the worlde! which hast set thy glory aboue the heauens.

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

Out of the mouth of babes and suckelings hast thou ordeined strength, because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemie and the auenger.

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

When I beholde thine heauens, euen the workes of thy fingers, the moone and the starres which thou hast ordeined,

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

What is man, say I, that thou art mindefull of him? and the sonne of man, that thou visitest him?

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

For thou hast made him a little lower then God, and crowned him with glory and worship.

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

Thou hast made him to haue dominion in the workes of thine hands: thou hast put all things vnder his feete:

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

All sheepe and oxen: yea, and the beastes of the fielde:

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

The foules of the ayre, and the fish of the sea, and that which passeth through the paths of the seas.

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

O Lord our Lord, howe excellent is thy Name in all the world!