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.

Yahweh, our Lord, people all over the world know that you [MTY] are very great! Your glory reaches up higher than 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.

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.

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 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—

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

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

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

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]!

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

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

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

the sheep and the cattle, and even 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, the fish, and everything [else] that swims in the seas.

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

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