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 leader of the music; to be accompanied with the gittith. A psalm of David.” O Jehovah, our Lord! How excellent is thy name in all the earth! Thou hast set thy glory 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 mouths of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained praise, To put thine adversaries to shame, And to silence 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,

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, The moon and the stars which thou hast ordained:

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 carest for him?

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

Yet thou hast made him little lower than God; Thou hast 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:

Thou hast given him dominion over the works of thy hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet, —

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

All sheep and oxen, Yea, and the beasts of the forest;

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 air, and the fishes of the sea, And whatever passeth through the paths of the deep.

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

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