Psalm 8

Good News Translation

God's Glory and Human Dignity^[a]

8 O Lord, our Lord,
your greatness is seen in all the world!
Your praise reaches up to the heavens;
²^(A)it is sung by children and babies.
You are safe and secure from all your enemies;
you stop anyone who opposes you.

³When I look at the sky, which you have made,
at the moon and the stars, which you set in their places—
⁴^(B)what are human beings, that you think of them;
mere mortals, that you care for them?

⁵^(C)Yet you made them inferior only to yourself;^[b]
    you crowned them with glory and honor.
⁶^(D)You appointed them rulers over everything you made;
    you placed them over all creation:
⁷    sheep and cattle, and the wild animals too;
⁸    the birds and the fish
    and the creatures in the seas.