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 the chief musician upon Gittith, a psalm of David.” O Eternal One our Lord, how excellent is thy name on all the earth! thou who hast set thy majesty 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 [thy] might, because of thy opponents, that thou mightest bring to silence the enemy and him that seeketh vengeance.

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 the mortal, that thou rememberest 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 a little less than angels, and hast crowned him with honor and glory.

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

Thou hast given him dominion over the works of thy hands; every thing hast thou placed beneath his feet:

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

Flocks and herds altogether, and also 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 heaven, and the fishes 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 Eternal One our Lord, how excellent is thy name on all the earth!