Psalm 8 (New Living Translation)
Psalm 8
For the choir director: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by a stringed instrument.[a]
1 O Lord, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth!
Your glory is higher than the heavens.
2 You have taught children and infants
to tell of your strength,[b]
silencing your enemies
and all who oppose you.
3 When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers—
the moon and the stars you set in place—
4 what are mere mortals that you should think about them,
human beings that you should care for them?[c]
5 Yet you made them only a little lower than God[d]
and crowned them[e] with glory and honor.
6 You gave them charge of everything you made,
putting all things under their authority—
7 the flocks and the herds
and all the wild animals,
8 the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea,
and everything that swims the ocean currents.
9 O Lord, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth!
Footnotes:
a.Psalm 8:1 Hebrew according to the gittith.
b.Psalm 8:2 Greek version reads to give you praise. Compare Matt 21:16.
c.Psalm 8:4 Hebrew what is man that you should think of him, / the son of man that you should care for him?
d.Psalm 8:5 Or Yet you made them only a little lower than the angels; Hebrew reads Yet you made him [i.e., man] a little lower than Elohim.
e.Psalm 8:5 Hebrew him [i.e., man]; similarly in 8:6.
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