Psalm 8

God’s Glory and Man’s Dignity ^l

8 O Lord, our Lord,

your greatness is seen in all the world!

Your praise reaches up to the heavens;

^2*it is sung by children and babies.

You are safe and secure from all your enemies;

you stop anyone who opposes you.

³When I look at the sky, which you have made,

at the moon and the stars, which you set in their places-

^4*what are human beings, that you think of them;

mere mortals, that you care for them?

⁵Yet you made them inferior only to yourself;^m

you crowned them with glory and honour.

^6*You appointed them rulers over everything you made;

you placed them over all creation:

⁷sheep and cattle,

and the wild animals too;

⁸the birds and the fish and the creatures in the seas.

⁹O Lord, our Lord,

your greatness is seen in all the world!