Psalms 8

Bishops(i) 1 O God our Lorde, howe excellent is thy name in all the earth? for that thou hast set thy glory aboue the heauens 2 Out of the mouth of very babes and sucklinges thou hast layde the foundation of thy strength for thyne aduersaries sake: that thou mightest styll the enemie and the auenger 3 For I will consider thy heauens, euen the workes of thy fingers: the moone and the starres whiche thou hast ordayned 4 What is man that thou art myndfull of him? and the sonne of man that thou visitest hym 5 Thou hast made hym somthyng inferiour to angels: thou hast crowned him with glory and worship 6 Thou makest hym to haue dominion of the workes of thy handes: and thou hast put all thinges [in subiection] vnder his feete 7 (8:7a) All sheepe and oxen, & also the beastes of the fielde 8 (8:7b) the foules of the ayre, and the fishe of the sea, and whatsoeuer swymmeth in the seas 9 (8:8) O God our Lorde: howe excellent great is thy name in all the earth