Psalms 8

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	NEW JERUSALEM
1 For the leader; "upon the gittith." A psalm of David.	1 [For the choirmaster On the . . . of Gath Psalm Of David] Yahweh our Lord, how majestic is your namethroughout the world! Whoever keeps singing of your majesty higher than the heavens,
2 O LORD, our Lord, how awesome is your name through all the earth! You have set your majesty above the heavens!	2 even through the mouths of children, or of babes in arms, you make him a fortress, firm against yourfoes, to subdue the enemy and the rebel.
3 Out of the mouths of babes and infants you have drawn a defense against your foes, to silence enemy and avenger.	3 I look up at your heavens, shaped by your fingers, at the moon and the stars you set firm-
4 When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and stars that you set in place--	4 what are human beings that you spare a thought for them, or the child of Adam that you care for him?
5 What are humans that you are mindful of them, mere mortals that you care for them?	5 Yet you have made him little less than a god, you have crowned him with glory and beauty,
6 Yet you have made them little less than a god, crowned them with glory and honor.	6 made him lord of the works of your hands, put al things under his feet,
7 You have given them rule over the works of your hands, put all things at their feet:	7 sheep and cattle, all of them, and even the wild beasts,
8 All sheep and oxen, even the beasts of the field,	8 birds in the sky, fish in the sea, when he makes his way across the ocean.
9 The birds of the air, the fish of the sea, and whatever swims the paths of the seas.	9 Yahweh our Lord, how majestic your name throughout the world!
10 O LORD, our Lord, how awesome is your name through all the earth!