New King James Version NKJV
King James Version KJV
1 To the Chief Musician. On the instrument of Gath. A Psalm of David. O Lord, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth, Who have set Your glory above the heavens!
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O LORD 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 nursing infants You have ordained strength, Because of Your enemies, That You may silence the enemy and the avenger.
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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 Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,
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When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
4 What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him?
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What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
5 For You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned him with glory and honor.
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For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
6 You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet,
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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-- Even the beasts of the field,
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All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
8 The birds of the air, And the fish of the sea That pass through the paths of the seas.
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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 Your name in all the earth!
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O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
Scripture taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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