The Psalms: Psalm 8

Psalm 8  •  1 min. read  •  grade level: 5
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VIII.
1 To the chief musician upon Gittith; a Psalm of David.
2 O Jehovah our Lord, how glorious [is] thy name in all the earth! Thou who hast set thy majesty above the heavens.
3 From the mouth of children and sucklings hast thou ordained praise1 because of thine adversaries, to still the enemy and the revenger.
4 When I behold thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast established,
5 What [is] man that thou rememberest him, and the son of man that thou visitest him?
6 And thou makest him a little lower than the angels2 and [with] glory and honor thou crownest him.
7 Thou makest him to rule over the works of thy hands; thou hast put everything under his feet.
8 All sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field.
9 Birds of heaven and fishes of the sea, [that which] passes through the paths of the sea.
10 O Jehovah, our Lord, how glorious [is] thy name in all the earth!
 
1. Or, the ascription of strength.
2. Or, God. It may also mean For a little time lower, &c.