8:2 From the mouths of children and nursing babies
you have ordained praise on account of your adversaries, 1
so that you might put an end to the vindictive enemy. 2
8:3 When I look up at the heavens, which your fingers made,
and see the moon and the stars, which you set in place, 3
8:4 Of what importance is the human race, 4 that you should notice 5 them?
Of what importance is mankind, 6 that you should pay attention to them, 7
8:5 and make them a little less than the heavenly beings? 8
You grant mankind 9 honor and majesty; 10
8:6 you appoint them to rule over your creation; 11
you have placed 12 everything under their authority, 13
8:7 including all the sheep and cattle,
as well as the wild animals, 14
8:8 the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea
and everything that moves through the currents 15 of the seas.
8:9 O Lord, our Lord, 16
how magnificent 17 is your reputation 18 throughout the earth! 19
For the music director, according to the gittith style; 21 a psalm of David.
8:1 O Lord, our Lord, 22
how magnificent 23 is your reputation 24 throughout the earth!
You reveal your majesty in the heavens above! 25
Book 1
(Psalms 1-41)
1:1 How blessed 27 is the one 28 who does not follow 29 the advice 30 of the wicked, 31
or stand in the pathway 32 with sinners,
or sit in the assembly 33 of scoffers! 34