Psalms

How Majestic Is Your Name!

1 For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of David. O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! You have set Your glory above the heavens.

2 From the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise on account of Your adversaries, to silence the enemy and avenger.

3 When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place —

4 what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?

5 You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor.

6 You made him ruler of the works of Your hands; You have placed everything under his feet:

7 all sheep and oxen, and even the beasts of the field,

8 the birds of the air and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.

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

Footnotes:
8:1 Gittith is probably a musical or liturgical term; here and in Psalms 81 and 84.
8:2 Literally You have ordained strength; LXX You have prepared praise; cited in Matthew 21:16
8:5 Or than God or than the heavenly beings; see also LXX.
8:6 Cited in 1 Corinthians 15:27 and Hebrews 2:6–8