< Psalms 8 >
1 Yahweh, our Lord, people all over the world know that you [MTY] are very great! Your glory reaches up higher than the heavens!
To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. A Psalm of David. Jehovah our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy majesty above the heavens.
2 You have taught little children and infants to praise you; they cause your enemies and those who try to (get revenge on/get rid of) you to be silent.
Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established praise because of thine adversaries, to still the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I look up at the sky [at night], and see the things that you have made— the moon and the stars that you have set in place—
When I see thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and stars, which thou hast established;
4 it is amazing [to me] that [RHQ] you think about people, that you are concerned about [us] humans!
What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
5 You made the angels in heaven to be only a little more important than we are; you caused us to be like kings [MET] and you gave us splendor and honor [DOU]!
Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and splendour.
6 You put us in charge of everything that you made; you gave us authority over all things—
Thou hast made him to rule over the works of thy hands; thou hast put everything under his feet:
7 the sheep and the cattle, and even the wild animals,
Sheep and oxen, all of them, and also the beasts of the field;
8 the birds, the fish, and everything [else] that swims in the seas.
The fowl of the heavens, and the fishes of the sea, [whatever] passeth through the paths of the seas.
9 Yahweh, our Lord, people all over the world know that you [MTY] are very great!
Jehovah our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!