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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Psalm 8
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1 Unto the end. For the oil and wine presses. A Psalm of David.
2 O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is your name throughout all the earth! For your magnificence is elevated above the heavens.
3 Out of the mouths of babes and infants, you have perfected praise, because of your enemies, so that you may destroy the enemy and the revenger.
4 For I will behold your heavens, the works of your fingers: the moon and the stars, which you have founded.
5 What is man, that you are mindful of him, or the son of man, that you visit him?
6 You reduced him to a little less than the Angels; you have crowned him with glory and honor,
7 and you have set him over the works of your hands.
8 You have subjected all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and in addition: the beasts of the field,
9 the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, which pass through the paths of the sea.
10 O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is your name throughout all the earth!
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