Psalms 8

1 To the choirmaster on the Gittith a psalm of David. O Yahweh lord our how! majestic [is] name your in all the earth [the one] who set! splendor your above the heavens.

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] mouth of children - and suckling-children you have established strength on account of opposers your to put an end to an enemy and an avenger.

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

3 If I will see heavens your [the] works fingers your [the] moon and [the] stars which you have established.

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

4 What? [is] humankind that you will remember him and a son of humankind that you will pay attention to him.

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

5 And you have made lack him little from God and honor and majesty you crown him.

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

6 You make rule him over [the] works of hands your everything you have put under feet his.

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

7 Sheep and cattle all of them and also [the] animals of [the] field.

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

8 [the] bird[s] of [the] heavens And [the] fish of the sea [that which] passes through [the] paths of [the] seas.

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

9 O Yahweh lord our how! majestic [is] name your in all the earth.

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