Psalms 8

1 [For the Chief Musician; on an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by David.] YHWH, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth. You have put your glory upon the heavens.

Unto the end. For the oil and wine presses. A Psalm of David. O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is your name throughout all the earth! For your magnificence is elevated above the heavens.

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 mouths of babes and infants, you have perfected praise, because of your enemies, so that you may destroy the enemy and the revenger.

3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you have set in place;

For I will behold your heavens, the works of your fingers: the moon and the stars, which you have founded.

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

What is man, that you are mindful of him, or the son of man, that you visit him?

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

You reduced him to a little less than the Angels; you have crowned him with glory and honor,

6 and you made him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:

and you have set him over the works of your hands.

7 all sheep and cattle, and also the wild animals,

You have subjected all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and in addition: the beasts of the field,

8 the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, which pass through the paths of the sea.

9 YHWH, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth.

O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is your name throughout all the earth!