Psalms 8

1 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,

To the Overseer, 'On the Gittith.' A Psalm of David. Jehovah, our Lord, How honourable Thy name in all the earth! Who settest thine honour on the heavens.

2 from the mouths of children and infants. You have built a fortress against your enemies, to silence the foe and the rebel.

From the mouths of infants and sucklings Thou hast founded strength, Because of Thine adversaries, To still an enemy and a self-avenger.

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

For I see Thy heavens, a work of Thy fingers, Moon and stars that Thou didst establish.

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

What [is] man that Thou rememberest him? The son of man that Thou inspectest him?

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

And causest him to lack a little of Godhead, And with honour and majesty compassest him.

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

Thou dost cause him to rule Over the works of Thy hands, All Thou hast placed under his feet.

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

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

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

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

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

Jehovah, our Lord, How honourable Thy name in all the earth!