Psalms 8

1 For the chief musician; set to the gittith style. A psalm of David. Yahweh our Lord, how magnificent is your name in all the earth, you who reveal your glory in the heavens above.

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 Out of the mouth of babies and infants you have established praise because of your enemies, so that you might silence both the enemy and the avenger.

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 your heavens, which your fingers have made, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

When I see thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and stars, which thou hast established;

4 Of what importance is the human race that you notice them, or mankind that you pay attention to them?

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

5 Yet you have made them only a little lower than the heavenly beings and have crowned them with glory and honor.

Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and splendour.

6 You make him to rule over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet:

Thou hast made him to rule over the works of thy hands; thou hast put everything under his feet:

7 all sheep and oxen, and even the animals of the field,

Sheep and oxen, all of them, and also the beasts of the field;

8 the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, everything that passes through the currents of 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, how magnificent is your name in all the earth!

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