A Messianic Psalm of David-He says that babes and sucklings praise the Lord-He asks: What is man, that thou art mindful of him?

  1 O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.

  2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

  3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

  4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

  5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

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

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

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

  9 O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!