The LORD’S Glory and Man’s Dignity.

For the choir director; on the Gittith. A Psalm of David.

1 O LORD, our Lord,
          How majestic is Your name in all the earth,
          Who have displayed Your splendor above the heavens!

2 From the mouth of infants and nursing babes You have established strength
          Because of Your adversaries,
          To make the enemy and the revengeful cease.

3 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
          The moon and the stars, which You have ordained;

4 What is man that You take thought of him,
          And the son of man that You care for him?

5 Yet You have made him a little lower than God,
          And You crown him with glory and majesty!

6 You make him to rule over the works of Your hands;
          You have put all things under his feet,

7 All sheep and oxen,
          And also the beasts of the field,

8 The birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea,
          Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

9 O LORD, our Lord,
          How majestic is Your name in all the earth!