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 caelos

To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David. O LORD our Lord, how excellent [is] thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.

2 ex ore infantium et lactantium perfecisti laudem propter inimicos tuos ut destruas inimicum et ultorem

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

3 quoniam videbo caelos tuos; opera digitorum tuorum lunam et stellas quae tu fundasti

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

4 quid est homo quod memor es eius aut filius hominis quoniam visitas eum

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

5 minuisti eum paulo minus ab angelis gloria et honore coronasti eum

For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

6 et constituisti eum super opera manuum tuarum

Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all [things] under his feet:

7 omnia subiecisti sub pedibus eius oves et boves universas insuper et pecora campi

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

8 volucres caeli et pisces maris qui perambulant semitas maris

The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, [and whatsoever] passeth through the paths of the seas.

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

O LORD our Lord, how excellent [is] thy name in all the earth!