Psalm 8:1–6

To the choirmaster: according to The rGittith.1 A Psalm of David.

1  O Lord, our Lord,

how smajestic is your name in all the earth!

tYou have set your glory above the heavens.

2  uOut of the mouth of babies and infants,

you have established strength because of your foes,

to still the enemy and the avenger.

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 beings2

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,

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2 View All Leviticus 19:27
ch. 21:5; [Isa. 15:2; Jer. 9:26; 48:37]