Psalm 8
God’s Glory, Man’s Dignity
For the choir director: on the Gittith.(A) A Davidic psalm.
1 Yahweh, our Lord,
how magnificent is Your name throughout the earth!(B)
You have covered the heavens with Your majesty.(C)
2 Because of Your adversaries,
You have established a stronghold
from the mouths of children and nursing infants(D)
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 man that You remember him,
the 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 lord 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 Yahweh, our Lord,
how magnificent is Your name throughout the earth!
Footnotes
- Psalm 8:1
- Psalm 8:2
- Psalm 8:5
- Psalm 8:5
- Psalm 8:6
Cross references
- 8:title : Ps 81, 84 titles
- 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
