Psalm

8 O Jehovah our Lord,* how majestic your name is in all the earth,+

You whose dignity is recounted* above the heavens!+

 2 Out of the mouth of children and sucklings you have founded* strength,+

On account of those showing hostility to you,+

So as to make the enemy and the one taking his vengeance desist.+

 3 When I see your heavens, the works of your fingers,+

The moon and the stars that you have prepared,+

 4 What is mortal man+ that you keep him in mind,+

And the son of earthling man that you take care of him?+

 5 You also proceeded to make him a little less than godlike ones,*+

And with glory+ and splendor you then crowned him.+

 6 You make him dominate over the works of your hands;+

Everything you have put under his feet:+

 7 Small cattle* and oxen, all of them,+

And also the beasts of the open field,+

 8 The birds of heaven and the fish of the sea,+

Anything passing through the paths of the seas.+