King James Version KJV
New Revised Standard NRS
1 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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O Lord, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your 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.
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Out of the mouths of babes and infants you have founded a bulwark because of your foes, to silence 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;
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When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established;
4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
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what are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them?
5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
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Yet you have made them a little lower than God, and crowned them with glory and honor.
6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
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You have given them dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under their feet,
7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
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all sheep and oxen, and also 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.
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the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
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O Lord, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
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