Psalm 8

Psalm 8

Divine Majesty and Human Dignity

To the leader: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of David.

1 O Lord, our Sovereign,

how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory above the heavens.*

2 Out of the mouths of babes and infants

you have founded a bulwark because of your foes,

to silence the enemy and the avenger.*

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

the moon and the stars that you have established;*

4 what are humans that you are mindful of them,

mortalsg that you care for them?*

5 Yet you have made them a little lower than Godh

and crowned them with glory and honor.*

6 You have given them dominion over the works of your hands;

you have put all things under their feet,*

7 all sheep and oxen,

and also the beasts of the field,

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

whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

9 O Lord, our Sovereign,

how majestic is your name in all the earth!*