Psalm 8

The Lord’s Greatness

1 Lord our Lord, your name is the most wonderful name in all the earth! It brings you praise in heaven above.

2 You have taught children and babies to sing praises to you because of your enemies.
And so you silence your enemies and destroy those who try to get even.

3 I look at your heavens, which you made with your fingers.
I see the moon and stars, which you created.

4 But why are people even important to you? Why do you take care of human beings?

5 You made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor.

6 You put them in charge of everything you made. You put all things under their control:

7 all the sheep, the cattle, and the wild animals,

8 the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea, and everything that lives under water.
9 Lord our Lord, your name is the most wonderful name in all the earth!

Psalm 8

For the music director, according to the gittith style; a psalm of David.

1 O Lord, our Lord,
how magnificent is your reputation throughout the earth!
You reveal your majesty in the heavens above!

2 From the mouths of children and nursing babies
you have ordained praise on account of your adversaries,
so that you might put an end to the vindictive enemy.

3 When I look up at the heavens, which your fingers made,
and see the moon and the stars, which you set in place,

4 Of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them?
Of what importance is mankind, that you should pay attention to them,

5 and make them a little less than the heavenly beings?
You grant mankind honor and majesty;

6 you appoint them to rule over your creation;
you have placed everything under their authority,

7 including all the sheep and cattle,
as well as the wild animals,

8 the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea
and everything that moves through the currents of the seas.

9 O Lord, our Lord,
how magnificent is your reputation throughout the earth!