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 Leader; upon the Gittith. A Psalm of David. O LORD, our Lord, how glorious is Thy name in all the earth! whose majesty is rehearsed 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.

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast Thou founded strength, because of Thine adversaries; that Thou mightest still 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 behold Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which Thou hast established;

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

What is man, that Thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that Thou thinkest of him?

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

Yet Thou hast made him but little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

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

Thou hast made him to have dominion over the works of Thy hands; Thou hast put all things under His feet:

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

Sheep and oxen, all of them, yea, and the beasts of the field;

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

The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea; whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

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

O LORD, our Lord, how glorious is Thy name in all the earth!