Psalm 8

For the music director, on an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by David.

YHWH, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens! From the mouths of children and nursing babies you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger. When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is humanity, that you think of them? What are human beings, that you care for them? For you have made him a little lower than the divine beings, and crowned him with glory and honor. You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet: All sheep and cattle, and the animals of the field, the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas. YHWH, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!