The Psalms

Psalm 8

For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of David.

 ^8:1O Jehovah, our Lord, How excellent is thy name in all the earth,

 Who hast set thy glory upon the heavens!

 ^8:2Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established strength,

 Because of thine adversaries,

 That thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

 ^8:3When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,

 The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

 ^8:4What is man, that thou art mindful of him?

 And the son of man, that thou visitest him?

 ^8:5For thou hast made him but little lower than God,

 And crownest him with glory and honor.

 ^8:6Thou makest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands;

 Thou hast put all things under his feet:

 ^8:7All sheep and oxen,

 Yea, and the beasts of the field,

 ^8:8The birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,

 Whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

 ^8:9O Jehovah, our Lord,

 How excellent is thy name in all the earth!