Psalm 8

¹O Lord our Governor, *how exalted is your Name in all the world!

²Out of the mouths of infants and children *your majesty is praised above the heavens.

³You have set up a stronghold against your adversaries, *to quell the enemy and the avenger.

⁴When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, *the moon and the stars you have set in their courses,

⁵What is man that you should be mindful of him? *the son of man that you should seek him out?

⁶You have made him but little lower than the angels; *you adorn him with glory and honor;

⁷You give him mastery over the works of your hands; *you put all things under his feet:

⁸All sheep and oxen, *even the wild beasts of the field,

⁹The birds of the air, the fish of the sea, *and whatsoever walks in the paths of the sea.

¹⁰O Lord our Governor, *how exalted is you Name in all the world!