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 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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

5 Minuisti eum paulominus ab angelis, gloria et honore coronasti eum:

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

6 et constituisti eum super opera manuum tuarum.

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

7 Omnia subiecisti sub pedibus eius, oves et boves universas: insuper et pecora campi.

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

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

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

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

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