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You ordained him to govern the works of Your hands,
    to nurture the offspring of Your divine imagination;
    You placed everything on earth beneath his feet:
All kinds of domesticated animals,
    even the wild animals in the fields and forests,
The birds of the sky and the fish of the sea,
    all the multitudes of living things that travel the currents of the oceans.

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You made them rulers(A) over the works of your hands;(B)
    you put everything under their[a] feet:(C)
all flocks and herds,(D)
    and the animals of the wild,(E)
the birds in the sky,
    and the fish in the sea,(F)
    all that swim the paths of the seas.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 8:6 Or made him ruler . . . ; / . . . his

Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

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