Psalm
8
(NKJV)
A
Psalm of David.
1
O LORD, our Lord,
How excellent is Your name in all the earth,
Who 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,
That You may 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 ordained,
4
What is man that You are mindful of him,
And the son of man that You visit him?
5 For You have made him a little lower than
the angels,[a]
And You have crowned him with glory and honor.
6 You have made him to have dominion over the
works of Your hands;
You have put all things under his feet,
7
All sheep and oxen—
Even the beasts of the field,
8
The birds of the air,
And the fish of the sea
That pass through the paths of the seas.
9
O LORD, our Lord,
How excellent is Your name in all the earth!
Footnotes:
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Psalm 8:5 Hebrew Elohim,
God; Septuagint, Syriac, Targum, and Jewish tradition translate
as angels.
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