Psalms 8 — The Old Testament Book of Psalms

¹ For the leader; “upon the gittith.”() A psalm of David.

² O LORD, our Lord,
how awesome is your name through all the earth!
I will sing of your majesty above the heavens

³ with the mouths of babes() and infants.()
You have established a bulwark against your foes,
to silence enemy and avenger.

⁴ When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and stars that you set in place—

⁵ () What is man that you are mindful of him,()
and a son of man that you care for him?()

⁶ Yet you have made him little less than a god,()
crowned him with glory and honor.

⁷ You have given him rule over the works of your hands,()
put all things at his feet:

⁸ All sheep and oxen,
even the beasts of the field,

⁹ The birds of the air, the fish of the sea,
and whatever swims the paths of the seas.

¹⁰ O LORD, our Lord,