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# Psalm 8

Psalm 8 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows has the same number, 8, in Hebrew numbering (the NABRE, RSV and KJV). Here are all 10 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Domine, Dominus noster. God is wonderful in his works; especially in mankind, singularly exalted by the incarnation of Christ.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 8 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Unto the end. For the oil and wine presses. A Psalm of David.
2. O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is your name throughout all the earth! For your magnificence is elevated above the heavens.
3. Out of the mouths of babes and infants, you have perfected praise, because of your enemies, so that you may destroy the enemy and the revenger.
4. For I will behold your heavens, the works of your fingers: the moon and the stars, which you have founded.
5. What is man, that you are mindful of him, or the son of man, that you visit him?
6. You reduced him to a little less than the Angels; you have crowned him with glory and honor,
7. and you have set him over the works of your hands.
8. You have subjected all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and in addition: the beasts of the field,
9. the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, which pass through the paths of the sea.
10. O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is your name throughout all the earth!

## Psalm 8 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. In finem, pro torcularibus. Psalmus David.
2. Domine, Dominus noster, quam admirabile est nomen tuum in universa terra! quoniam elevata est magnificentia tua super cælos.
3. Ex ore infantium et lactentium perfecisti laudem propter inimicos tuos, ut destruas inimicum et ultorem.
4. Quoniam videbo cælos tuos, opera digitorum tuorum, lunam et stellas quæ tu fundasti.
5. Quid est homo, quod memor es ejus? aut filius hominis, quoniam visitas eum?
6. Minuisti eum paulominus ab angelis; gloria et honore coronasti eum;
7. et constituisti eum super opera manuum tuarum.
8. Omnia subjecisti sub pedibus ejus, oves et boves universas, insuper et pecora campi,
9. volucres cæli, et pisces maris qui perambulant semitas maris.
10. Domine, Dominus noster, quam admirabile est nomen tuum in universa terra!

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 300: The Creator ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2566: The Revelation of Prayer - the Universal Call To Prayer ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2809: "Hallowed be Thy Name" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 559: The Mysteries of Christ's Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2809: "Hallowed be Thy Name" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 1: In Hebrew, Gittith, supposed to be a musical instrument.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Tue, Jan 12, 2027: Tuesday of the First Week in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 8:2ab and 5, 6-7, 8-9
- Tue, Feb 9, 2027: Tuesday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 8:4-5, 6-7, 8-9
- Thu, Apr 1, 2027: Thursday in the Octave of Easter — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 8:2ab and 5, 6-7, 8-9
- Thu, Apr 20, 2028 (computed): Thursday within the Octave of Easter — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 8:2ab and 5, 6-7, 8-9

2 more dates through December 31, 2028, in the [liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/).

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish. Mass citations number the Psalms in the Hebrew way.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).