Psalms 8

God's Glory and Human Dignity

¹O LORD , our Lord,

your greatness is seen in all the world!

Your praise reaches up to the heavens;

²it is sung by children and babies.[#Mt 21.16]

You are safe and secure from all your enemies;

you stop anyone who opposes you.

³When I look at the sky, which you have made,

at the moon and the stars, which you set in their places —

⁴what are human beings, that you think of them;[#Job 7.17–18; Ps 144.3; Heb 2.6–8]

mere mortals, that you care for them?

⁵Yet you made them inferior only to yourself;[#8.5 ; or the gods, or the angels.]

you crowned them with glory and honour.

⁶You appointed them rulers over everything you made;[#1 Cor 15.27; Eph 1.22; Heb 2.8]

you placed them over all creation:

⁷sheep and cattle, and the wild animals too;

⁸the birds and the fish

and the creatures in the seas.

⁹O LORD , our Lord,

your greatness is seen in all the world!