Psalms 8

1 For the leader: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by a stringed instrument. Lord our God! How glorious in all the earth is your name! Your praise reaches as high as the heavens,

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 from the mouths of children and infants. You have built a fortress against your enemies, to silence the foe and the rebel.

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 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set there,

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

4 what are mortals, that you think of them, humans, that you visit them?

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

5 Yet you made them little less than divine, crowned them with glory and majesty,

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

6 made them lord of the works of your hands, put all things under their feet –

You make him to rule over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet:

7 sheep and oxen, all of them; and the wild beasts also:

all sheep and oxen, and even the animals of the field,

8 birds of the air, and fish of the sea, and all that crosses the paths of the ocean.

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

9 Lord our God! How glorious in all the earth is your name!

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