---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Psalms from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 8
verse_count: 9
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Psalms, chap. 8, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Psalms 8

*God's glory ma(fnijied by his works and love to man. To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David.*

**1** Olord 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!