Psalm 8

The Lord’s Greatness

For the director of music. On the gittith. A psalm of David.

8Lord our Lord,

your name is the most wonderful name in all the earth!

It brings you praise in heaven above.

²You have taught children and babies

to sing praises to you

because of your enemies.

And so you silence your enemies

and destroy those who try to get even.

³I look at your heavens,

which you made with your fingers.

I see the moon and stars,

which you created.

⁴But why are people even important to you?

Why do you take care of human beings?

⁵You made them a little lower than the angels

and crowned them with glory and honor.

⁶You put them in charge of everything you made.

You put all things under their control:

⁷all the sheep, the cattle,

and the wild animals,

⁸the birds in the sky,

the fish in the sea,

and everything that lives under water.

⁹Lord our Lord,

your name is the most wonderful name in all the earth!