Psalm 8

Modern English Version

You have set Your glory
    above the heavens.
² Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants
    You have ordained strength
because of Your enemies,
    to silence the enemy and the avenger.
³ When I consider Your heavens,
    the work of Your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
    which You have established,
⁴ what is man that You are mindful of him,
    and the son of man that You attend to him?

⁵ For You have made him a little lower than the angels,
    and crowned him with glory and honor.
⁶ You have given him dominion over the works of Your hands;
    You have put all things under his feet,
⁷ all sheep and oxen,
    and also the beasts of the field,
⁸ the birds of the air,
    and the fish of the sea,
    and whatever travels the paths of the seas.

⁹ O Lord, our Lord,
    how excellent is Your name in all the earth!