Psalms 8

1 To the Overseer, 'On the Gittith.' A Psalm of David. Jehovah, our Lord, How honourable Thy name in all the earth! Who settest thine honour on the heavens.

O Jehovah, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth, who has set thy glory upon the heavens!

2 From the mouths of infants and sucklings Thou hast founded strength, Because of Thine adversaries, To still an enemy and a self-avenger.

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou have perfected praise, because of thine adversaries, that thou might still the enemy and the avenger.

3 For I see Thy heavens, a work of Thy fingers, Moon and stars that Thou didst establish.

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

4 What [is] man that Thou rememberest him? The son of man that Thou inspectest him?

what is man that thou remember him? And the son of man that thou succor him?

5 And causest him to lack a little of Godhead, And with honour and majesty compassest him.

For thou have made him but little lower than agents, and crowned him with glory and honor.

6 Thou dost cause him to rule Over the works of Thy hands, All Thou hast placed under his feet.

Thou make him to have dominion over the works of thy hands. Thou have put all things under his feet.

7 Sheep and oxen, all of them, And also beasts of the field,

All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field,

8 Bird of the heavens, and fish of the sea, Passing through the paths of the seas!

the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

9 Jehovah, our Lord, How honourable Thy name in all the earth!

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