VIII

Can there be a more lyrical psalm?



Psalm 8

1 O LORD, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth!


  Your glory is higher than the heavens.


2 You have taught children and infants to tell of your strength,

silencing your enemies and all who oppose you.


3 When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers—


  the moon and the stars you set in place—


4 what are mere mortals that you should think about them,


  human beings that you should care for them?

5 Yet you made them only a little lower than God


  and crowned them with glory and honor.


6 You gave them charge of everything you made,


  putting all things under their authority—


7 the flocks and the herds


  and all the wild animals,


8 the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea,


  and everything that swims the ocean currents.


9 O LORD, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth!