The Lord’s Glory and Man’s Dignity.
To the Chief Musician; set to
a Philistine lute [or perhaps to a particular Hittite tune]. A Psalm of David.
1 O Lord, our Lord,
How majesticandgloriousandexcellent is Your name in all the earth!
You have displayed Your splendor above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouths of infants and nursing babes You have established strength
Because of Your adversaries,
That You might silence the enemyandmake the revengeful cease.
3 When I seeandconsider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have established,
4 What is man that You are mindful of him,
And the son of [earthborn] man that You care for him?
5 Yet You have made him a little lower thanGod,
And You have crowned him with glory and honor.
6 You made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands;
You have put all things under his feet,
7 All sheep and oxen,
And also the beasts of the field,
8 The birds of the air, and the fish of the sea,
Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
9 O Lord, our Lord,
How majesticandgloriousandexcellent is Your name in all the earth!