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 Chief Musician; on an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by David.] LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth. You have put your glory upon 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.

From the lips of children and infants you have established praise, because of your adversaries, that you might silence 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 consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you have set in place;

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 think of him, and the son of man that you care for him?

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

For you have made him a little lower than the 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 made him ruler 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,

all sheep and cattle, and also the wild animals,

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, whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

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

LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth.