Psalm 8

GOD’S GLORY, HUMAN DIGNITY

For the choir director: on the Gittith.a A psalm of David.

1 Lord, our Lord,

how magnificent is your name throughout the earth!b

You have covered the heavens with your majesty.A,c

2 From the mouths of infants and nursing babies,d

you have established a strongholdB

on account of your adversaries

in order to silence the enemy and the avenger.

3 When I observe your heavens,

the work of your fingers,

the moon and the stars,

which you set in place,e

4 what is a human being that you remember him,

a son of manC that you look after him?f

5 You made him little less than GodD,E

and crowned him with glory and honor.

6 You made him ruler over the works of your hands;

you put everything under his feet:g

7 all the sheep and oxen,

as well as the animals in the wild,

8 the birds of the sky,

and the fish of the sea

that pass through the currents of the seas.h

9 Lord, our Lord,

how magnificent is your name throughout the earth!