Psalm 8 - Modern English Version

For the Music Director. According to The Gittith. A Psalm of David.

¹ O  Lord, our Lord, how excellent is Your name in all the earth! You have set Your glory above the heavens.

² Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength because of Your enemies, to silence the enemy and the avenger.

³ When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have established,

⁴ what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You attend to him?

⁵ For You have made him a little lower than the angels, and crowned him with glory and honor.

⁶ You have given him dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet,

⁷ all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field,

⁸ the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatever travels the paths of the seas.

⁹ O  Lord, our Lord, how excellent is Your name in all the earth!