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,

O Jehovah, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth, who has set thy glory upon 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.

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou have perfected praise, because of thine adversaries, that thou might still the enemy and the avenger.

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

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou have ordained,

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

what is man that thou remember him? And the son of man that thou succor him?

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

For thou have made him but little lower than agents, and crowned him with glory and honor.

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

Thou make him to have dominion over the works of thy hands. Thou have put all things under his feet.

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

All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field,

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

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

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

O Jehovah, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!