Psalms 8

¹ For the leader; "upon the gittith." A psalm of David.

² O LORD, our Lord, how awesome is your name through all the earth! You have set your majesty above the heavens!

³ Out of the mouths of babes and infants you have drawn a defense against your foes, to silence enemy and avenger.

⁴ When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and stars that you set in place--

⁵ What are humans that you are mindful of them, mere mortals that you care for them?

⁶ Yet you have made them little less than a god, crowned them with glory and honor.

⁷ You have given them rule over the works of your hands, put all things at their feet:

⁸ All sheep and oxen, even the beasts of the field,

⁹ The birds of the air, the fish of the sea, and whatever swims the paths of the seas.

¹⁰ O LORD, our Lord, how awesome is your name through all the earth!