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.

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.

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

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.

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

When I look up at your heavens, which your fingers have made, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

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

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

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

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

6 et constituisti eum super opera manuum tuarum.

You make him to rule over the works of your hands; you 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, and even the animals of the field,

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

the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, everything that passes through the currents of the seas.

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

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