Psalm 8

New American Standard Bible

The LORD’S Glory and Man’s Dignity.

For the choir director; on the Gittith. A Psalm of David.

8 O LORD, our Lord,

How majestic is Your name in all the earth,

Who have [a]displayed Your splendor above the heavens!

2 From the mouth of infants and nursing babes You have established [b]strength

Because of Your adversaries,

To make the enemy and the revengeful cease.

3 When I [c]consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,

The moon and the stars, which You have [d]ordained;

4 What is man that You [e]take thought of him,

And the son of man that You care for him?

5 Yet You have made him a little lower than [f]God,

And You crown him with glory and majesty!

6 You make him to rule over the works of Your hands;

You have put all things under his feet,

7 All sheep and oxen,

And also the [g]beasts of the field,

8 The birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea,

Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

9 O LORD, our Lord,

How majestic is Your name in all the earth!

Footnotes

a. Psalm 8:1 Or set

b. Psalm 8:2 Or a bulwark

c. Psalm 8:3 Or see

d. Psalm 8:3 Or appointed, fixed

e. Psalm 8:4 Or remember him

f. Psalm 8:5 Or the angels; Heb Elohim

g. Psalm 8:7 Or animals

New American Standard Bible (NASB)

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