O LORD, our LORD,

your greatness is seen in all the world!

Your praise reaches up to the heavens;

it is sung by children and babies.

You are safe and secure

from all your enemies;

you stop anyone who opposes you.

When I look at the sky,

which you have made,

at the moon and the stars,

which you set in their places

• what is man,

that you think of him;

mere man, that you care for him?

Yet you made him inferior only to yourself;

you crowned him with glory and honor.

You appointed him ruler

over everything you made;

you placed him over all creation:

sheep and cattle, and the wild animals too;

the birds and the fish and the creatures in the seas.

O LORD, our Lord,

your greatness is seen in all the world!

Psalm 8:1-9