Jahweh our Lord, how great your name throughout the earth, above the heavens is your majesty chanted.
By the mouths of children, babes in arms, you set your stronghold firm against your foes to subdue enemies and rebels. I look up at your heavens, made by your fingers, at the moon and stars you set in place.
Ah, what is man that you should spare a thought for him? Or the son of man that you should care for him?
You have made him a little less than an angel, you have crowned him with glory and splendor, and you have made him lord over the work of your hand.
You set all things under his feet, sheep and oxen all these, yes, wild animals too, birds in the air, fish in the sea traveling the paths of the ocean.
Jahweh our Lord, how great your name throughout the earth!
Psalms 8
To the glory of the name of God who gives such power to men, we ardently pray for this wonderful beginning.
Paul VI
Pope
Psalm 8 King James Version (KJV)
1 O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
9 O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
