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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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