8:1 O Lord, our sovereign Master,1
how magnificent2 is your reputation3 throughout the earth!
You reveal your majesty in the heavens above!4
8:2 When children and nursing babies cry for help,5
you protect them from your foes,6
so that you might put an end to the vindictive enemy.7
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,8
“Of what importance is the human race,10 that you should notice11 them?
Of what importance is mankind,12 that you should pay attention to them,13
8:5 and make them almost like the heavenly beings?”14
You grant mankind15 honor and majesty;16
8:6 you allow them to rule over your creation;17
you have placed18 everything under their authority,19
8:7 including all the sheep and cattle,
as well as the wild animals,20
8:8 the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea
and everything that moves through the channels21 of the seas.
8:9 O Lord, our sovereign Master,22
how magnificent23 is your reputation24 throughout the earth!25
Psalm 926
For the music director; according to the alumoth-labben style;27 a psalm of David.