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 caelos

Unto the end, for the presses: a psalm of David. O Lord our Lord, how admirable is thy name in the whole earth! For thy magnificence is elevated above the heavens.

2 ex ore infantium et lactantium perfecisti laudem propter inimicos tuos ut destruas inimicum et ultorem

Out of the mouth of infants and of sucklings thou hast perfected praise, because of thy enemies, that thou mayst destroy the enemy and the avenger.

3 quoniam videbo caelos tuos; opera digitorum tuorum lunam et stellas quae tu fundasti

For I will behold thy heavens, the works of thy fingers: the moon and the stars which thou hast founded.

4 quid est homo quod memor es eius aut filius hominis quoniam visitas eum

What is man that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man that thou visitest hi?

5 minuisti eum paulo minus ab angelis gloria et honore coronasti eum

Thou hast made him a little less than the angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honour:

6 et constituisti eum super opera manuum tuarum

And hast set him over the works of thy hands.

7 omnia subiecisti sub pedibus eius oves et boves universas insuper et pecora campi

Thou hast subjected all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen: moreover the beasts also of the fields.

8 volucres caeli et pisces maris qui perambulant semitas maris

The birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea, that pass through the paths of the sea.

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

O Lord our Lord, how admirable is thy name in all the earth!