¹ For the choirmaster. According to Gittith.¹ 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.

1. Gittith is probably a musical or liturgical term; here and in Psalms 81 and 84.

² From the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise¹ on account of Your adversaries, to silence the enemy and avenger.

1. Literally You have ordained strength; LXX You have prepared praise; cited in Matthew 21:16

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;¹ You crowned him with glory and honor.

1. Or than God or than the heavenly beings; see also LXX.

⁶ You made him ruler of the works of Your hands; You have placed everything under his feet:¹

1. Cited in 1 Corinthians 15:27 and Hebrews 2:6–8

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!