Psalm 8

Yahweh’s Glory in Creation

8For the music director, on the Gittith.^a A psalm of David.^b

¹Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth,

who put your splendor above the heavens.

²From the mouth of children and infants you have founded^c strength

on account of your enemies,

to silence the enemy and the avenger.

³When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,

the moon and the stars which you set in place—

⁴what is a human being that you think of him?

and a child of humankind that you care for him?

⁵And you made him a little lower than heavenly beings,^d

and with glory and with majesty you crowned him.

⁶You make him over the works of your hands;

all things you have placed under his feet:

⁷sheep and cattle, all of them,

and also the wild animals of the field,

⁸the birds of the sky and the fish of the sea,

everything that passes along the paths of seas.

⁹Yahweh, our Lord,

how majestic is your name in all of the earth!