8:1 For the director of music. According to gittith. A psalm of David. O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.

8:2 From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise because of your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.

8:3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

8:4 what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?

8:5 You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.

8:6 You made him ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet:

8:7 all flocks and herds, and the beasts of the field,

8:8 the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.

8:9 O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!