To the chief Musician upon the Gittit, A Psalm of David.

For the conductor, on the gitith [a type of instrument], a psalm of David.

O Lord our Lord, how majestic is Thy name in all the earth; who hast set Thy glory above the heavens.

O L rd, our Master, how mighty is Your name in all the earth [(beyond the poor capacity of the earthlings)]. Your glory [i.e., Your Shechinah] were [more fitly] reposed on the heavens! [But, in Your great humility —]

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast Thou founded strength because of Thy enemies, that Thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

out of the mouths of babes and sucklings You have founded strength [i.e., You reposed Your Shechinah in the sanctuary and ordained that the Levites and the Cohanim ("babes" relative to Your grandeur) ascribe strength and glory unto You], for [the discomfiture of] Your foes [(to make known to them that we are Your people)], to put an end to [the reviling of] the foe and the avenger [(who taunt us as being no better than other nations)].

When I behold Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which Thou hast ordained;

When I see Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars which You have established —

what is man, that Thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that Thou visitest him?

What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You remember him!

Yet Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and Thou dost crown him with glory and honour.

Yet You have placed him but little beneath the angels [(empowering Moses to split the sea; Joshua, to make the sun stand still, etc.)], and You have crowned him with honor and glory.

Thou makest him to have dominion over the works of Thy hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet:

You have given him dominion over the work of Your hands — all have You placed beneath his feet!

all sheep, and oxen, and also the beasts of the field;

Flocks and herds — all! And also the beasts of the field.

the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea; whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

The birds of heaven and the fish of the sea — he [man] crosses the paths of the seas.

O Lord our Lord, how majestic is Thy name in all the earth!

O L rd, our Master, how mighty is Your name in all the earth!