The Book of Psalms. The Harvard Classics. 190914.
Book I
VIII
Jehovahs Glory and Mans Dignity
For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of David.
[1 ] O JEHOVAH, our Lord, How excellent is thy name in all the earth, Who hast set thy glory upon 1 the heavens!
[2 ] Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established strength, Because of thine adversaries, That thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
[3 ] When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
[4 ] What is man, that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou visitest him?
[5 ] For thou hast made him but little lower than God, 2 And crownest him with glory and honor.
[6 ] Thou makest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet:
[7 ] All sheep and oxen, Yea, and the beasts of the field,
[8 ] The birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea Whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
[9 ] O Jehovah, our Lord, How excellent is thy name in all the earth!