Psalm 8

Psalm 8 ¹ For the director of music. According to gittith. A psalm of David. LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in the whole earth! You have set your glory in the heavens.

² You have made sure that children and infants praise you. Their praise is a wall that stops the talk of your enemies.

³ I think about the heavens. I think about what your fingers have created. I think about the moon and stars that you have set in place.

⁴ What are human beings that you think about them? What is a son of man that you take care of him?

⁵ You have made them a little lower than the angels. You placed on them a crown of glory and honor.

⁶ You made human beings rule over everything your hands created. You put everything under their control.

⁷ They rule over all flocks and herds and over the wild animals.

⁸ They rule over the birds in the sky and over the fish in the ocean. They rule over everything that swims in the oceans. ⁹ LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in the whole earth!