Psalm 8
New International Version
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 have set your glory in the heavens.
2Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.
3When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
4what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?
5You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor.
6You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet:
7all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild,
8the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.
9Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
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