Psalm 8

PSALM 8

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

¹O Lord, our Lord,

how majestic is thy name in all the earth!

Thou whose glory above the heavens is chanted

²by the mouth of babes and infants,

thou hast founded a bulwark because of thy foes,

to still the enemy and the avenger.

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

the moon and the stars which thou hast established;

⁴what is man that thou art mindful of him,

and the son of man that thou dost care for him?

⁵Yet thou hast made him little less than God,

and dost crown him with glory and honor.

⁶Thou hast given him dominion over the works of thy hands;

thou hast put all things under his 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 sea.

⁹O Lord, our Lord,

how majestic is thy name in all the earth!