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Psalms 8

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1 {To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. A Psalm of David.} Jehovah our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy majesty above the heavens.
1 LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens.
2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established praise because of thine adversaries, to still the enemy and the avenger.
2 Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.
3 When I see thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and stars, which thou hast established;
3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?
5 Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and splendour.
5 You have made them a little lower than the angelsand crowned them with glory and honor.
6 Thou hast made him to rule over the works of thy hands; thou hast put everything under his feet:
6 You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet:
7 Sheep and oxen, all of them, and also the beasts of the field;
7 all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild,
8 The fowl of the heavens, and the fishes of the sea, [whatever] passeth through the paths of the seas.
8 the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.
9 Jehovah our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
9 LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
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