Psalm 8
Text — King James Version (1611)
8:1O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
8:2Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
8:3When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
8:4What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
8:5For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
8:6Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
8:7All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
8:8The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
8:9O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
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Parallel passages
- Hebrews 1 — The Son, heir of all things, superior to the angels.