Psalms 8

1 For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of David. O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! You have set Your glory above the heavens.

1 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.

2 From the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise on account of Your adversaries, to silence the enemy and avenger.

2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

3 When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—

3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

4 what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?

4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

5 You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor.

5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

6 You made him ruler of the works of Your hands; You have placed everything under his feet:

6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

7 all sheep and oxen, and even the beasts of the field,

7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

8 the birds of the air and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.

8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

9 O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth!

9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!