Psalm 8

1 O Lord, our Lord,

How excellent is Your name

in all the earth,

Who have set Your glory above the heavens!

2 Out of the mouths of babes and

nursing infants

You have ordained strength,

Because of Your enemies,

That You may silence the

enemy and the avenger.

3 When I consider Your

heavens, the work of Your

fingers,

The moon and the stars,

which You have ordained,

4 What is man that You are

mindful of him,

And the son of man that You

visit him?

5 For you have made him a little

lower than the angels,

And You have crowned him

with glory and honor.

6 You have made him to have

dominion over the works of

Your hands;

You have put all things under

his feet,

7 All sheep and the oxen-

Even the beasts of the field,

8 The birds of the air,

And the fish of the sea

That pass through the paths of

the seas.

9 O Lord, our Lord,

How excellent is Your name in

all the earth!