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1 To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David. O LORD our Lord, how excellent [is] thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
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1 O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.
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2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thy enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
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2 From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise because of your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.
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3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers; the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
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3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
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4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
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4 what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?
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5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor.
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5 You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.
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6 Thou hast made him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all [things] under his feet:
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6 You made him ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet:
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7 All sheep and oxen, yes, and the beasts of the field;
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7 all flocks and herds, and the beasts of the field,
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8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, [and whatever] passeth through the paths of the seas.
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8 the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.
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9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent [is] thy name in all the earth!
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9 O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
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