PSALM 8

GOD’S GLORY AND MAN’S DIGNITY

O Lord, our Lord, your greatness is seen in all the world!

Your praise reaches up to the heavens;

It is sung by the children and babies.

You are safe and secure from all your enemies;

You stop anyone who opposes you.

When I look at the sky, which you have made,

at the moon, and the stars, which you set in their places---

what is man, that you think of him;

mere man, that you care for him?

Yet you made him inferior only to yourself;

You crowned him with glory and honor.

You appointed him ruler over everything you made;

You placed him over all creation:

sheep and cattle, and the wild animals too;

the birds and the fish and the creatures in the seas.

O Lord, our Lord, your greatness is seen in all the world!