Psalms 8
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PSALM 8
Common Meter: 8,6,8,6
To the chief Musician upon Gittith,
A Psalm of David.
1How excellent in all the earth,
Lord, our Lord, is thy name!
Who hast thy glory far advanc'd
above the starry frame.
2From infants' and from sucklings' mouth
thou didest strength ordain,
For thy foes' cause, that so thou might'st
th' avenging foe restrain.
3When I look up unto the heav'ns,
which thine own fingers fram'd,
Unto the moon, and to the stars,
which were by thee ordain'd;
4Then say I, What is man, that he
remember'd is by thee?
Or what the son of man, that thou
so kind to him should'st be?
5For thou a little lower hast
him than the angels made;
With glory and with dignity
thou crowned hast his head.
6Of thy hands' works thou mad'st him lord,
all under's feet didst lay;
7All sheep and oxen, yea, and beasts
that in the field do stray;
8Fowls of the air, fish of the sea,
all that pass through the same.
9How excellent in all the earth,
Lord, our Lord, is thy name!
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Psalms 8
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1To him that excelleth on Gittith. A Psalme of Dauid. O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy Name in all the worlde! which hast set thy glory aboue the heauens. 2Out of the mouth of babes and suckelings hast thou ordeined strength, because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemie and the auenger. 3When I beholde thine heauens, euen the workes of thy fingers, the moone and the starres which thou hast ordeined, 4What is man, say I, that thou art mindefull of him? and the sonne of man, that thou visitest him? 5For thou hast made him a little lower then God, and crowned him with glory and worship. 6Thou hast made him to haue dominion in the workes of thine hands: thou hast put all things vnder his feete: 7All sheepe and oxen: yea, and the beastes of the fielde: 8The foules of the ayre, and the fish of the sea, and that which passeth through the paths of the seas. 9O Lord our Lord, howe excellent is thy Name in all the world!
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