Psalm 8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

You have set your glory above the heavens.^(A)
2     Out of the mouths of babes and infants
you have founded a bulwark because of your foes,
    to silence the enemy and the avenger.^(B)

³ When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
    the moon and the stars that you have established;^(C)
4 what are humans that you are mindful of them,
    mortals^[a] that you care for them?^(D)

⁵ Yet you have made them a little lower than God^[b]
    and crowned them with glory and honor.^(E)
6 You have given them dominion over the works of your hands;
    you have put all things under their feet,^(F)
7 all sheep and oxen,
    and also the beasts of the field,
⁸ the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea,
    whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

⁹ O Lord, our Sovereign,
    how majestic is your name in all the earth!^(G)