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!

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 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.

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

4 it is amazing [to me] that [RHQ] you think about people, that you are concerned about [us] humans!

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

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]!

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

6 You put us in charge of everything that you made; you gave us authority over all things—

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

7 the sheep and the cattle, and even the wild animals,

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

8 the birds, the fish, and everything [else] that swims in the seas.

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

9 Yahweh, our Lord, people all over the world know that you [MTY] are very great!

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