Psalm 8
For the director of music. According to gittith. A psalm of David.
1Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in the whole earth!
You have set your glory
in the heavens.
2You have made sure that children
and infants praise you.
Their praise is a wall
that stops the talk of your enemies.
3I think about the heavens.
I think about what your fingers have created.
I think about the moon and stars
that you have set in place.
4What are human beings that you think about them?
What is a son of man that you take care of him?
5You have made them a little lower than the angels.
You placed on them a crown of glory and honor.
6You made human beings rule over everything your hands created.
You put everything under their control.
7They rule over all flocks and herds
and over the wild animals.
8They rule over the birds in the sky
and over the fish in the ocean.
They rule over everything that swims in the oceans.
9Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in the whole earth!
To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David.
1O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
2Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.8.2 ordained: Heb. founded
3When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
4What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
5For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
6Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
7All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;8.7 All…: Heb. Flocks and oxen all of them
8The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
9O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
