Psa 8 | HCSB | STEP | For the choir director : on the Gittith . A Davidic psalm . Yahweh , our Lord , how magnificent is Your name throughout the earth ! You have covered the heavens with Your majesty .

Psalms 8

God’s Glory, Man’s Dignity

1 For the choir director: on the ^{▼▼Gittith: Perhaps an instrument, musical term, tune from Gath, or song for the grape harvest}Gittith. ^b A Davidic psalm.

^{▼▼Yahweh/Yah: Or The Lord; the personal name of God in Hebrew; "Yah" is the shortened form of the name.}Yahweh, our Lord,
how magnificent is Your name throughout the earth! ^d

You have covered the heavens with Your majesty. ^{▼▼Lit earth, which has set Your splendor upon the heavens
,} ^f
2 Because of Your adversaries,
You have established a stronghold ^{▼▼LXX reads established praise}
from the mouths of children and nursing infants ^h
to silence the enemy and the avenger.

3 When I observe Your heavens,
the work of Your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which You set in place, ⁱ
4 what is man that You remember him,
the son of man that You look after him? ^j
5 You made him little less than God ^{▼▼LXX reads angels
,} ^{▼▼Or gods, or a god, or heavenly beings; lit Elohim}
and crowned him with glory and honor.
6 You made him lord over the works of Your hands;
You put everything under his feet: ^{▼▼Or authority
,} ⁿ
7 all the sheep and oxen,
as well as the animals in the wild,
8 the birds of the sky,
and the fish of the sea
that pass through the currents of the seas. ^o

9 Yahweh, our Lord,
how magnificent is Your name throughout the earth!