Psalm 8

Tree of Life Version

¹ For the music director, upon the Gittite lyre: a psalm of David.
² Adonai our Lord,
    how excellent is Your Name over all the earth!
You set Your splendor above the heavens.
³ Out of the mouths of babies and toddlers
You established power,^[a] because of Your enemies,
to silence the foe and the avenger.
⁴ When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which You established—
⁵ what is man, that You are mindful of him?
And the son of man, that You care for him?^[b]
6 Yet You made him a little lower than the angels,
and crowned him with glory and majesty!
⁷ You gave him dominion over the works of Your hands.
You put all things under their feet:^[c]
8 all sheep and oxen,
and also beasts of the field,
⁹ birds in the air, and fish in the ocean—
all passing through the paths of the seas.