The Book of Psalms

Psalms 8

For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of David.

How Majestic Is Your Name!

1 O LORD, our Lord,how majestic is Your name in all the earth!You have set Your gloryabove the heavens.Gittith is probably a musical or liturgical term; here and in Psalms 81 and 84.

From the mouths of children and infantsYou have ordained praiseon account of Your adversaries,to silence the enemy and avenger.Literally You have ordained strength; LXX You have prepared praise; cited in Matthew 21:16

When I behold Your heavens,the work of Your fingers,the moon and the stars,which You have set in place —

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

You made him a little lower than the angels;You crowned him with glory and honor.Or than God or than the heavenly beings; see also LXX.

You made him ruler of the works of Your hands;You have placed everything under his feet:Cited in 1 Corinthians 15:27 and Hebrews 2:6–8

all sheep and oxen,and even the beasts of the field,

the birds of the air and the fish of the sea,all that swim the paths of the seas.

O LORD, our Lord,how majestic is Your name in all the earth!

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