Psalms 8

Psalm title: To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. A Psalm of David.

1. ¹Jehovah our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy majesty above the heavens.
2. ²Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established praise because of thine adversaries, to still the enemy and the avenger.
3. ³When I see thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and stars, which thou hast established;
4. ⁴What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
5. ⁵Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and splendour.
6. ⁶Thou hast made him to rule over the works of thy hands; thou hast put everything under his feet:
7. ⁷Sheep and oxen, all of them, and also the beasts of the field;
8. ⁸The fowl of the heavens, and the fishes of the sea, [supplied: whatever] passeth through the paths of the seas.
9. ⁹Jehovah our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

Words in italics were supplied by the translators.

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