Psalm 8
New American Standard Bible 2020
Chapter overview
Psalm 8 looks from infant praise to the moon and stars, marveling that small human beings receive dignity and responsibility. Humanity is entrusted with attentive care within the vast created order.
CreationHuman dignityWonderStewardship
1Lord, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth, You who have displayed Your splendor above the heavens!
2From the mouths of infants and nursing babies You have established strength Because of Your enemies, To do away with the enemy and the revengeful.
3¶When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have set in place;
4What is man that You think of him, And a son of man that You are concerned about him?
5Yet You have made him a little lower than God, And You crown him with glory and majesty!
6You have him rule over the works of Your hands; You have put everything under his feet,
7All sheep and oxen, And also the animals of the field,
8The birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea, Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
9¶Lord, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth!
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