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.

Unto the end, for the presses: a psalm of David. O Lord our Lord, how admirable is thy name in the whole earth! For thy magnificence is elevated above 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 infants and of sucklings thou hast perfected praise, because of thy enemies, that thou mayst destroy the enemy and the avenger.

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

For I will behold thy heavens, the works of thy fingers: the moon and the stars which thou hast founded.

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

What is man that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man that thou visitest hi?

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

Thou hast made him a little less than the angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honour:

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

And hast set him over the works of thy hands.

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

Thou hast subjected all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen: moreover the beasts also of the fields.

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

The birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea, that pass through the paths of the sea.

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

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