Psalms 8

1 [For the Chief Musician; on an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by David.] LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth. You have put your glory upon 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 lips of children and infants you have established praise, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the 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 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you have set in place;

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 think of him, and the son of man that you care for him?

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

5 For you have made him a little lower than the angels. You have crowned him with glory and honor,

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

6 and you made him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things 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 all sheep and cattle, and also the wild animals,

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

8 the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes 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 LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth.

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