Psalmorum 8

1 In finem, pro torcularibus. Psalmus David. Domine, Dominus noster, quam admirabile est nomen tuum in universa terra! quoniam elevata est magnificentia tua super cælos.

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

2 Ex ore infantium et lactentium perfecisti laudem propter inimicos tuos, ut destruas inimicum et ultorem.

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 Quoniam videbo cælos tuos, opera digitorum tuorum, lunam et stellas quæ tu fundasti.

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

4 Quid est homo, quod memor es ejus? aut filius hominis, quoniam visitas eum?

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

5 Minuisti eum paulominus ab angelis; gloria et honore coronasti eum;

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

6 et constituisti eum super opera manuum tuarum.

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

7 Omnia subjecisti sub pedibus ejus, oves et boves universas, insuper et pecora campi,

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

8 volucres cæli, et pisces maris qui perambulant semitas maris.

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

9 Domine, Dominus noster, quam admirabile est nomen tuum in universa terra!

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