Psalm 8

Psalm 8

Divine Majesty and Human Dignity

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

¹O Lord, our Sovereign,

how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory above the heavens.^*

²Out of the mouths of babes and infants

you have founded a bulwark because of your foes,

to silence the enemy and the avenger.^*

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

the moon and the stars that you have established;^*

⁴what are humans that you are mindful of them,

mortals^g that you care for them?^*

⁵Yet you have made them a little lower than God^h

and crowned them with glory and honor.^*

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

you have put all things under their feet,^*

⁷all sheep and oxen,

and also the beasts of the field,

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

whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

⁹O Lord, our Sovereign,

how majestic is your name in all the earth!^*