Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible RHE
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1 <Unto the end, for the presses: a psalm for David.> (8-2) O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is thy name in the whole earth! For thy magnificence is elevated 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 (8-3) Out of the mouth of infants and of sucklings thou hast perfected praise, because of thy enemies, that thou mayst destroy 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 (8-4) For I will behold thy heavens, the works of thy fingers: the moon and the stars which thou hast founded.
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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 (8-5) What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or 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 (8-6) Thou hast made him a little less than the angels, thou 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 (8-7) And hast set him over the works of thy hands.
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You have given them dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under their feet,
7 (8-8) Thou hast subjected all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen: moreover, the beasts also of the fields.
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all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field,
8 (8-9) The birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea, that pass through the paths of the sea.
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the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
9 (8-10) O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is thy name in the whole earth!
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O Lord, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
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