Chapter 08 - How excellent is thy name

1 O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth![1] 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?[1]

5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.[2]

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![1]