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.

For the end, concerning the wine presses, a Psalm of David. O Lord, our Lord, how wonderful is your name in all the earth! for your magnificence is exalted 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 have you perfected praise, because of your enemies; that you might put down the enemy and 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,

For I will regard the heavens, the work of your fingers; the moon and stars, which you have 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 you are mindful of him? or the son of man, that you visit him?

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

You made him a little less than angels, you have crowned him with glory and honor;

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

and you have set him over the works of your hands: you have put all things under his feet:

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

sheep and all oxen, yes and the cattle 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 birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea, the [creatures] passing through the paths of the sea.

9 Yahweh our Lord, how magnificent is your name in all the earth!

O Lord our Lord, how wonderful is your name in all the earth!