Psalms 8:1-5

¹For the leader: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by a stringed instrument. Lord our God! How glorious in all the earth is your name! Your praise reaches as high as the heavens,

²from the mouths of children and infants. You have built a fortress against your enemies, to silence the foe and the rebel.

³When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set there,

⁴what are mortals, that you think of them, humans, that you visit them?

⁵Yet you made them little less than divine, crowned them with glory and majesty,