Psalm 8 - Tree of Life Version

Humanity is God’s Splendor

¹ For the music director, upon the Gittite lyre: a psalm of David.

² Adonai our Lord, how excellent is Your Name over all the earth! You set Your splendor above the heavens.

³ Out of the mouths of babies and toddlers You established power, because of Your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.

⁴ When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You established—

⁵ what is man, that You are mindful of him? And the son of man, that You care for him?

⁶ Yet You made him a little lower than the angels, and crowned him with glory and majesty!

⁷ You gave him dominion over the works of Your hands. You put all things under their feet:

⁸ all sheep and oxen, and also beasts of the field,

⁹ birds in the air, and fish in the ocean— all passing through the paths of the seas.

¹⁰ Adonai our Lord, how excellent is Your Name over all the earth!