Psalm 8

Psalm 8

For the choir director; on the gittith;^aa psalm by David. 

¹O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name throughout the earth! 

Your glory is sung above the heavens. 

²From the mouths of little children and infants, 

you have built a fortress against your opponents 

to silence the enemy and the avenger. 

³When I look at your heavens, 

the creation of your fingers, 

the moon and the stars that you have set in place— 

⁴what is a mortal that you remember him 

or the Son of Man that you take care of him? 

⁵You have made him a little lower than yourself. 

You have crowned him with glory and honor. 

⁶You have made him rule what your hands created. 

You have put everything under his control: 

⁷all the sheep and cattle, the wild animals, 

⁸the birds, the fish, 

whatever swims in the currents of the seas. 

⁹O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name throughout the earth!