Psalms 8
Domine, Dominus noster. God is wonderful in his works; especially in mankind, singularly exalted by the incarnation of Christ.
U nto the end, for the presses:
a psalm for David. The presses.... In Hebrew, Gittith, supposed to be a musical instrument.
2 O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is thy name in the
whole earth! For thy magnificence is elevated above the heavens.
3 Out of the mouth of infants and of sucklings thou hast perfected praise,
because of thy enemies, that thou mayst destroy the enemy and the avenger.
4 For I will behold thy heavens, the works of thy fingers:
the moon and the stars which thou hast founded.
5 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man,
that thou visitest him?
6 Thou hast made him a little less than the angels,
thou hast crowned him with glory and honour:
7 And hast set him over
the works of thy hands.
8 Thou hast subjected all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen:
moreover, the beasts also of the fields.
9 The birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea,
that pass through the paths of the sea.
10 O Lord, our Lord,
how admirable is thy name in the whole earth!