PSALM 8 (revised)

 

O Lord, our Lord,

how great is your name

throughout the earth,

you who have spread

your majesty

above the heavens.

Out of the mouths of infants

and suckling babies,

you have brought forth praise

for quelling the punishing foe.

When I look at the heavens,

the work of your hands,

the moon and stars

that you established,

what is man,

that you remember him,

or the son of man,

that you visit him?

You have made him

a little less than God,

with honor and glory

you have crowned him.

You have given him power

over the works of your hands,

you have laid all things

under his feet:

all sheep and cattle,

and all beasts of the field,

the birds of the sky

and the fish of the sea

that travel the watery paths.

O Lord, our Lord,

how great is your name

in all the earth!

Translation Copyright © 2023 by Donald C. Traxler.