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Psalm 8 In Hebrew texts 8:1-9 is numbered 8:2-10. ¹ For the director of music. According to gittith. Title: Probably a musical term A psalm of David. LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens.

² Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.

³ When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

⁴ what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? Or what is a human being that you are mindful of him, / a son of man that you care for him?

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

⁶ You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their Or made him ruler…; / …his feet:

⁷ all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild,

⁸ the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas. ⁹ LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!