Psalms 8

 

Psalms 8

 

¹ LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory

in the heavens.

 

² Through the praise of children and infants

you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.

 

³ When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

 

⁴ what is mankind that you are mindful of them,

human beings that you care for them?

 

⁵ You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor.

 

⁶ You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet:

 

⁷ all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild,

 

⁸ the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea,

all that swim the paths of the seas.

 

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