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 infantsto tell of your strength, Greek version reads to give you praise. Compare Matt 21:16.silencing your enemiesand 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 herdsand 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!