Psalm 8

For the choir director: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by a stringed instrument. Hebrew according to the gittith. ¹O LORD, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth! Your glory is higher than the heavens. ² You have taught children and infants to tell of your strength, Greek version reads to give you praise. Compare Matt 21:16. silencing your enemies and all who oppose you.

³When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers— the moon and the stars you set in place— ⁴ what are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them? Hebrew what is man that you should think of him, / the son of man that you should care for him? ⁵ Yet you made them only a little lower than God Or Yet you made them only a little lower than the angels; Hebrew reads Yet you made him [i.e., man] a little lower than Elohim. and crowned them Hebrew him [i.e., man]; similarly in 8:6. with glory and honor. ⁶ You gave them charge of everything you made, putting all things under their authority— ⁷ the flocks and the herds and all the wild animals, ⁸ the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea, and everything that swims the ocean currents.

⁹O LORD, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth!