Psalms 8

1 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.

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 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.

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 consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

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 is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

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

5 For thou hast made him but little lower than God, and crownest him with glory and honour.

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

6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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