3  When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,

the moon and the stars, ^vwhich you have set in place,

4  ^wwhat is man that you are mindful of him,

and the son of man that you ^xcare for him?

5  Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings¹

and crowned him with ^yglory and honor.

6  ^zYou have given him dominion over ^athe works of your hands;

^byou have put all things under his feet,

7  all sheep and oxen,

and also the beasts of the field,

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

whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

9  O Lord, our Lord,

how majestic is your name in all the earth!

6  ^kBy the word of the Lord the heavens were made,

and by the breath of his mouth all their host.

7  ^lHe gathers the waters of the sea as a heap;

^mhe puts the deeps in storehouses.

8  ⁿLet all the earth fear the Lord;

let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him!

9  For he spoke, and it came to be;

he commanded, and it stood firm.

3  For ^tthe Lord is a great God,

and a great ^uKing ^vabove all gods.

4  In his hand are the depths of the earth;

the heights of the mountains are his also.

5  The sea is his, for ^whe made it,

and his hands formed the dry land.

6  Oh come, let us worship and bow down;

let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!

7  For he is our God,

and we are the people of his pasture,

and the sheep of his hand.

^xToday, if you hear his voice,

5  ^yBlessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,

whose ^zhope is in the Lord his God,

6  who made heaven and earth,

the sea, and all that is in them,

who keeps faith forever;