The Book of Psalms

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- Chapter 8 -

How majestic is your name!

Yahweh our Lord, people all over the world know that you are very great! We see your greatness every time we look toward the heavens!

You have taught little children and infants to praise you; they cause your enemies and those who try to get revenge on you to be silent.

I look up at the sky at night and see the things that you have made, the moon and the stars that you have set in place.

It is amazing to me that you think about people, that you are concerned about us humans!

You made the angels in heaven to be only a little more important than we are; you caused us to be like kings!

You put us in charge of everything that you made; you gave us authority over all things,

the sheep and the cattle, and even the wild animals,

the birds, the fish, and everything else that swims in the seas.

Yahweh our Lord, people all over the world know that you are very great!

How majestic is your name!

LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens!

From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained,

what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?

For you have made him a little lower than the angels,(a) and crowned him with glory and honor.

You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:

All sheep and cattle, yes, and the animals of the field,

the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Footnotes

(a)8:5 Hebrew: Elohim. The word Elohim, used here, usually means “God”, but can also mean “gods”, “princes”, or “angels”. The Septuagint reads “angels” here. See also the quote from the Septuagint in Hebrews 2:7 .