Psalms 8

Psalm 8

God’s Glory, Human Dignity

For the choir director: on the Gittith. A psalm of David.

¹Lord, our Lord, how magnificent is your name throughout the earth! You have covered the heavens with your majesty.²

³From the mouths of infants and nursing babies, you have established a stronghold on account of your adversaries in order to silence the enemy and the avenger.⁴

⁵When I observe your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you set in place,⁶

⁷what is a human being that you remember him, a son of man that you look after him?⁸

⁹You made him little less than God and crowned him with glory and honor.¹⁰

¹¹You made him ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet:¹²

¹³all the sheep and oxen, as well as the animals in the wild,¹⁴

¹⁵the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea that pass through the currents of the seas.¹⁶

¹⁷Lord, our Lord, how magnificent is your name throughout the earth!¹⁸