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

For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of David. O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory upon 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 established strength, because of thine adversaries, 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 but little lower than God, and crownest 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, 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!