Psalms 8

1 To the choirmaster on the Gittith a psalm of David. O Yahweh lord our how! majestic [is] name your in all the earth [the one] who set! splendor your above 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] mouth of children - and sucking children you have established strength on account of opposers your to put an end to an enemy and an 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 If I will see heavens your [the] works fingers your [the] moon and [the] stars which you have established.

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] humankind that you will remember him and a son of humankind that you will pay attention to him.

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

5 And you have made lack him little from God and honor and majesty you crown him.

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

6 You make rule him over [the] works of hands your everything you have put under feet his.

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

7 Sheep and cattle all of them and also [the] animals of [the] field.

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

8 [the] bird[s] of [the] heavens And [the] fish of the sea [that which] passes 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 Yahweh lord our how! majestic [is] name your in all the earth.

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