8:1 O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.
8:2 From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise [Or strength] because of your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.
8:3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
8:4 what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?
8:5 You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings [Or than God] and crowned him with glory and honour.
8:6 You made him ruler over the works of your hands you put everything under his feet:
8:7 all flocks and herds, and the beasts of the field,
8:8 the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.
8:9 LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!9 FOR [PSALMS 9 AND 10 MAY HAVE BEEN ORIGINALLY A SINGLE ACROSTIC POEM, THE STANZAS OF WHICH BEGIN WITH THE SUCCESSIVE LETTERS OF THE HEBREW ALPHABET. IN THE SEPTUAGINT THEY CONSTITUTE ONE PSALM