8Psalms 8

PSAL. VIII. / Gods glory is magnified by his workes, and by his loue to man. / To the chiefe Musicion vpon Gittith, a Psalme of Dauid.

1O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory aboue the heauens.Select Psalms 8:1

2Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength, because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemie and the auenger.Select Psalms 8:2

3When I consider thy heauens, the worke of thy fingers, the moone and the starres which thou hast ordained;Select Psalms 8:3

4What is man, that thou art mindfull of him? and the sonne of man, that thou visitest him?Select Psalms 8:4

5For thou hast made him a little lower then the Angels; and hast crowned him with glory and honour.Select Psalms 8:5

6Thou madest him to haue dominion ouer the workes of thy hands; thou hast put all things vnder his feete.Select Psalms 8:6

7All sheepe and oxen, yea and the beasts of the field.Select Psalms 8:7

8The foule of the aire, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoeuer passeth through the paths of the seas.Select Psalms 8:8

9O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!Select Psalms 8:9