Psalms 8

1 For the music director. On the gittith. A psalm of David. Lord, our Lord, your magnificent reputation fills the earth! Your majesty is greater than the heavens above,

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 and is sung by the voices of children and infants. Your strength counters your opponents, silencing the enemy and the avenger.

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 contemplate the heavens that your hands made, the moon and stars that you placed 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 human beings that you should concern yourself with them? What are people that you should care for them?

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

5 You created them a little lower than God, crowning 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 You put them in charge of all that you made, giving them authority over everything:

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

7 the sheep, the cattle, and the wild animals,

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

8 the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea—everything that swims in 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 Lord, your magnificent reputation fills the earth!

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