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Psalm 8

The music leader must use special music.

This is a song that David wrote.

The sky at night [ a ]

8 Lord , our ruler,
your name is famous all over the world.
The sky above shows how great you are.
2 You have taught children and babies to praise you.
You do that to show your enemies how strong you are.
Anyone who turns against you has to be quiet.
Your cruel enemies can do nothing!
3 You made the skies with your own hands.
When I look up, I see the moon and the stars.
You have put them all in their right place.
4 So why do you even think about men and women?
Why do you take care of humans?
5 You have made their place a little below God himself. [ b ]
You have given them honour, like kings.
6 You have chosen them to rule everything that you have made.
You have put everything under their authority.
7-8 Yes! Humans rule them all:
Farm animals and wild animals,
birds, fish and all the things that swim in the sea.

9 Lord , our ruler,
your name is famous all over the world.

Footnotes

  1. 8:1 When he was a young man, David was a shepherd. He was with his sheep on the hills at night. David saw the moon and the stars in the sky. He knew that God made them all.
  2. 8:5 ‘below God himself’ or ‘below the angels’.

To the director: With the gittith . A song of David.

8 Lord our Lord, your name is the most wonderful in all the earth!
It brings you praise everywhere in heaven.

2 From the mouths of children and babies come songs of praise to you.
They sing of your power to silence your enemies who were seeking revenge.

3 I look at the heavens you made with your hands.
I see the moon and the stars you created.
4 And I wonder, “Why are people so important to you?
Why do you even think about them?
Why do you care so much about humans [ a ] ?
Why do you even notice them?”

5 But you made them almost like gods
and crowned them with glory and honor.
6 You put them in charge of everything you made.
You put everything under their control.
7 People rule over the sheep and cattle and all the wild animals.
8 They rule over the birds in the sky
and the fish that swim in the sea.
9 Lord our Lord, your name is the most wonderful name in all the earth!

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 8:4 people … humans Literally, “man … son of man” or “Enosh … son of Adam.” These are Hebrew ways of saying humans—descendants of Adam and Enosh.

8 O Lord , our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.

2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

9 O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

The Lord ’ s Glory and Mankind’s Dignity.

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

8 Lord , our Lord,
How majestic is Your name in all the earth,
You who have [ a ] ( A ) displayed Your splendor above the heavens!
2 ( B ) From the mouths of infants and nursing babies You have established [ b ] ( C ) strength
Because of Your enemies,
To do away with ( D ) the enemy and the revengeful.

3 When I [ c ] ( E ) consider ( F ) Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The ( G ) moon and the stars, which You have set in place;
4 ( H ) What is man that You think of him,
And a son of man that You are concerned about him?
5 Yet You have made him a ( I ) little lower than [ d ] God,
And ( J ) You crown him with ( K ) glory and majesty!
6 You have him ( L ) rule over the works of Your hands;
You have ( M ) put everything under his feet,
7 All sheep and oxen,
And also the animals of the field,
8 The birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea,
Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

9 ( N ) Lord , our Lord,
How majestic is Your name in all the earth!

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 8:1 Lit put
  2. Psalm 8:2 Or a strength
  3. Psalm 8:3 Or see
  4. Psalm 8:5 LXX angels

Psalm 8 [ a ]

For the director of music. According to gittith. [ b ] A psalm of David.

1 Lord , our Lord,
how majestic is your name ( A ) in all the earth!

You have set your glory ( B )
in the heavens. ( C )
2 Through the praise of children and infants
you have established a stronghold ( D ) against your enemies,
to silence the foe ( E ) and the avenger.
3 When I consider your heavens, ( F )
the work of your fingers, ( G )
the moon and the stars, ( H )
which you have set in place,
4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them? [ c ] ( I )

5 You have made them [ d ] a little lower than the angels [ e ] ( J )
and crowned them [ f ] with glory and honor. ( K )
6 You made them rulers ( L ) over the works of your hands; ( M )
you put everything under their [ g ] feet: ( N )
7 all flocks and herds, ( O )
and the animals of the wild, ( P )
8 the birds in the sky,
and the fish in the sea, ( Q )
all that swim the paths of the seas.

9 Lord , our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth! ( R )

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 8:1 In Hebrew texts 8:1-9 is numbered 8:2-10.
  2. Psalm 8:1 Title: Probably a musical term
  3. Psalm 8:4 Or what is a human being that you are mindful of him, / a son of man that you care for him?
  4. Psalm 8:5 Or him
  5. Psalm 8:5 Or than God
  6. Psalm 8:5 Or him
  7. Psalm 8:6 Or made him ruler . . . ; / . . . his
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