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New International Version NIV
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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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 ordained strength because of thine enemies , that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger .
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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 consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained ;
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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?
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what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings 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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You have made them a little lower than the angelsand 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 made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet:
7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
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all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild,
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 in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.
9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
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LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!