Psalm 8
God’s Glory, Human Dignity
For the choir director: on the Gittith.(A) A psalm of David.
1 Lord, our Lord,
how magnificent is your name throughout the earth!(B)
You have covered the heavens with your majesty.(C)
2 From the mouths of infants and nursing babies,(D)
you have established a stronghold
on account of your adversaries
in order to silence the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I observe your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you set in place,(E)
4 what is a human being that you remember him,
a son of man that you look after him?(F)
5 You made him little less than God
and crowned him with glory and honor.
6 You made him ruler over the works of your hands;
you put everything under his feet:(G)
7 all the sheep and oxen,
as well as the animals in the wild,
8 the birds of the sky,
and the fish of the sea
that pass through the currents of the seas.(H)
9 Lord, our Lord,
how magnificent is your name throughout the earth!
Footnotes
- 8:1
- 8:2
- 8:4
- 8:5
- 8:5
Cross references
- 8:0 : Ps 81; 84
- 8:1 : Is 12:4
- 8:1 : Ps 113:4; 148:13
- 8:2 : Mt 21:16
- 8:3 : Ps 33:6; 136:9
- 8:4 : Jb 7:17–18; Ps 144:3
- 8:4–6 : 1Co 15:27; Eph 1:22; Heb 2:5–8
- 8:7–8 : Gn 1:26,28
