1 Psalm 8 God’s Glory, Human Dignity For the choir director: on the 'Gittith'. A psalm of David. Lord , our Lord, how magnificent is your name throughout the earth! You have covered the heavens with your majesty. Lit earth, which has set your splendor upon the heavens 2 From the mouths of infants and nursing babies, you have established a stronghold LXX reads established praise on account of your adversaries in order to silence the enemy and the avenger.3 When I observe your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you set in place,4 what is a human being that you remember him, a son of man Or a mere mortal that you look after him?5 You made him little less than God LXX reads angels Or heavenly beings ; Hb Elohim and crowned him with glory and honor.6 You made him ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet:7 all the sheep and oxen, as well as the animals in the wild,8 the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea that pass through the currents of the seas.9 Lord , our Lord, how magnificent is your name throughout the earth!