8:1 *[For the director of music. According to gittith.** A psalm of David.] Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens. / *In Hebrew texts 8:1-9 is numbered 8:2-10. / **Title: Probably a musical term
8:2 Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.
8:3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
8:4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?* / *Or what is a human being that you are mindful of him, a son of man that you care for him?
8:5 You have made them* a little lower than the angels** and crowned them^ with glory and honor. / *Or him / **Or than God / ^Or him
8:6 You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their* feet: / *Or made him ruler . . . ; . . . his
8:7 all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild,
8:8 the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.
8:9 Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!