Psalms, 8

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0. To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of David.

1. [For the choirmaster On the . . . of Gath Psalm Of David] Yahweh our Lord, how majestic is your name throughout the world! Whoever keeps singing of your majesty higher than the heavens,

1. O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is thy name in all the earth! Thou whose glory above the heavens is chanted

2. even through the mouths of children, or of babes in arms, you make him a fortress, firm against your foes, to subdue the enemy and the rebel.

2. by the mouth of babes and infants, thou hast founded a bulwark because of thy foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.

3. I look up at your heavens, shaped by your fingers, at the moon and the stars you set firm-

3. When I look at thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast established;

4. what are human beings that you spare a thought for them, or the child of Adam that you care for him?

4. what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou dost care for him?

5. Yet you have made him little less than a god, you have crowned him with glory and beauty,

5. Yet thou hast made him little less than God, and dost crown him with glory and honor.

6. made him lord of the works of your hands, put all things under his feet,

6. Thou hast given him dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet,

7. sheep and cattle, all of them, and even the wild beasts,

7. all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field,

8. birds in the sky, fish in the sea, when he makes his way across the ocean.

8. the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the sea.

9. Yahweh our Lord, how majestic your name throughout the world!

9. O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is thy name in all the earth!