New Living Translation NLT
New International Version NIV
1 O LORD, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth! Your glory is higher than 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 You have taught children and infants to tell of your strength, silencing your enemies and all who oppose you.
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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 look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers— the moon and the stars you set in place—
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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 are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them?
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what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?
5 Yet you made them only a little lower than God and crowned them with glory and honor.
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You have made them a little lower than the angelsand crowned them with glory and honor.
6 You gave them charge of everything you made, putting all things under their authority—
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You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet:
7 the flocks and the herds and all the wild animals,
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all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild,
8 the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea, and everything that swims the ocean currents.
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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, your majestic name fills the earth!
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LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!