Psalm 8

1. O LORD, our Lord, Thou God of our salvation, / How glorious is Thy Name in all creation! / Thou who hast set Thy majesty on high / Beyond the skies for man to glorify. /

2. Out of the mouth of infants praise is sounded, / And so a mighty bulwark Thou hast founded. / Thus breakest Thou the adversary’s force / And thwartest Thou the evildoer’s course. /

3. When I behold the skies Thou hast created, / The moon and stars which Thou hast generated, / O what is man that Thou wilt think of him, / The son of man that Thou dost care for him? /

4. Yet, little less than God — so hast Thou made / him, / And Thou with glorious honor hast arrayed him, / That over Thy creation he might reign; / Thou hast assigned all things as man’s domain. /

5. Thou hast appointed him as lord and master / Of bird and beast in forest, field, and pasture; / He also rules the creatures of the sea. / O LORD, how great is Thy Name’s majesty. W. W. J. VanOene, 1972 & William Helder, 1980