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: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by a stringed instrument. Lord our God! How glorious in all the earth is your name! Your praise reaches as high as 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 built a fortress against your enemies, to silence the foe and the rebel.

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

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set there,

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

what are mortals, that you think of them, humans, that you visit them?

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

Yet you made them little less than divine, crowned them with glory and majesty,

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

made them lord of the works of your hands, put all things under their feet –

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

sheep and oxen, all of them; and the wild beasts also:

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

birds of the air, and fish of the sea, and all that crosses the paths of the ocean.

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

Lord our God! How glorious in all the earth is your name!