Psalm 8

1. (0) For the leader. On the gittit. A psalm of David:

2. (1) Adonai! Our Lord! How glorious 2 is your name throughout the earth! 2 The fame of your majesty 2 spreads even above the heavens!

3. (2) From the mouths of babies and infants at the breast 3 you established strength because of your foes, 3 in order that you might silence 3 the enemy and the avenger.

4. (3) When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, 4 the moon and stars that you set in place —

5. (4) what are mere mortals, that you concern yourself with them; 5 humans, that you watch over them with such care?

6. (5) You made him but little lower than the angels, 6 you crowned him with glory and honor,

7. (6) you had him rule what your hands made, 7 you put everything under his feet —

8. (7) sheep and oxen, all of them, 8 also the animals in the wilds,

9. (8) the birds in the air, the fish in the sea, 9 whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

10. (9) Adonai! Our Lord! How glorious 10 is your name throughout the earth!