Psalms 8

1 O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth! who have set your glory above the heavens.

TO THE OVERSEER. ON THE GITTITH. A PSALM OF DAVID. YHWH, our Lord, How majestic [is] Your Name in all the earth, Who have set Your splendor on the heavens!

2 Out of the mouth of babes and infants have you ordained strength because of your enemies, that you might still the enemy and the avenger.

From the mouths of infants and sucklings You have founded strength, Because of Your adversaries, To still an enemy and a self-avenger.

3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

For I see Your heavens, a work of Your fingers, [The] moon and stars that You established.

4 What is man, that you are mindful of him? and the son of man, that you visit him?

What [is] man that You remember him? The son of man that You inspect him?

5 For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and have crowned him with glory and honour.

You make him a little lower than the gods [[or God]], And surround him with glory and majesty.

6 You made him to have dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet:

You cause him to rule Over the works of Your hands, You have placed all under his feet.

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

Sheep and oxen, all of them, And also beasts of the field,

8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passes through the paths of the seas.

Bird of the heavens, and fish of the sea, Passing through the paths of the seas!

9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth!

YHWH, our Lord, How majestic [is] Your Name in all the earth!