Psalm 8 – God’s Glory in Nature

Revision 2

For the leader: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by a stringed instrument.

8 Lord our God!

How glorious in all the earth is your name!

Your praise reaches as high as the heavens,

2 from the mouths of children and infants.

You have built a fortress

against your enemies,

to silence the foe and the rebel.

3 When I look at your heavens,

the work of your fingers,

the moon and the stars,

which you have set there,

4 what are mortals,

that you think of them,

humans,

that you visit them?

5 Yet you made them little less than divine,

crowned them with glory and majesty,

6 made them lord of the works of your hands,

put all things under their feet –

7 sheep and oxen,

all of them;

and the wild beasts also:

8 birds of the air,

and fish of the sea,

and all that crosses the paths of the ocean.

9 Lord our God!

How glorious in all the earth is your name!