Chapter 8

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, 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?

⁵ Yet you made them only a little lower than God and crowned them 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!