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.

“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 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 mouths of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained praise, To put thine adversaries to shame, And to silence the enemy and 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 hast ordained:

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, And the son of man, that thou carest for him?

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

Yet thou hast made him little lower than God; Thou hast 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 hast given him dominion over the works of thy hands; Thou hast 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 forest;

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, And whatever passeth through the paths of the deep.

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!