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 chief musician; set to the gittith style. A psalm of David. Yahweh our Lord, how magnificent is your name in all the earth, you who reveal your glory in 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.

Out of the mouth of babies and infants you have established praise because of your enemies, so that you might silence both 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 look up at your heavens, which your fingers have made, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

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

Of what importance is the human race that you notice them, or mankind that you pay attention to them?

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

Yet you have made them only a little lower than the heavenly beings and have crowned them with glory and honor.

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

You make him to rule over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet:

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

all sheep and oxen, and even the animals of the field,

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

the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, everything that passes through the currents of the seas.

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

Yahweh our Lord, how magnificent is your name in all the earth!