Psalm 8

O Lord, our God, how great your name throughout the earth!

Above the heavens is your majesty chanted by the mouths of children, babes in arms. You set your stronghold firm against your foes to subdue enemies and rebels.

I look up at your heavens, made by your fingers, at the moon and stars you set in place – ah, what are people that you should spare a thought for them, Human beings that you should care for them?

Yet you have made them little less than a god, you have crowned them with glory and splendour, You give them mastery over the works of your hands, set all things under their feet,

sheep and oxen, all these, yes, wild animals too, birds in the air, fish in the sea travelling the paths of the ocean.

O Lord, our God, how great your name throughout the earth!