Psalm 8

¹ O LORD our Governor, how excellent is thy Name in all the world * thou that hast set thy glory above the heavens!

² Out of the mouth of very babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength, because of thine enemies * that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

³ For I will consider thy heavens, even the works 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 Thou madest him lower than the angels * to crown him with glory and worship.

⁶ Thou makest him to have dominion of the works of thy hands * and thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet;

⁷ All sheep and oxen * yea, and the beasts of the field;

⁸ The fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea * and whatsoever walketh through the paths of the seas.

⁹ O Lord our Governor * how excellent is thy Name in all the world!