Psalm 8
Divine Majesty and Human Dignity
To the leader: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of David.
1 O Lord, our Sovereign,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.(A)
2 Out of the mouths of babes and infants
you have founded a bulwark because of your foes,
to silence the enemy and the avenger.(B)
3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars that you have established;(C)
4 what are humans that you are mindful of them,
mortals that you care for them?(D)
5 Yet you have made them a little lower than God
and crowned them with glory and honor.(E)
6 You have given them dominion over the works of your hands;
you have put all things under their feet,(F)
7 all sheep and oxen,
and also the beasts of the field,
8 the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea,
whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
9 O Lord, our Sovereign,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!(G)
Footnotes
- 8.4
- 8.5
Cross references
- 8.1 : Ps 66.2; 113.4; 148.13
- 8.2 : Ps 44.16; Mt 21.16
- 8.3 : Ps 89.11; 102.25; 136.9
- 8.4 : Job 7.17; Ps 144.3; Heb 2.6
- 8.5 : Ps 21.5; 103.4; Heb 2.9
- 8.6 : Gen 1.26; Heb 2.8
- 8.9 : v 1
