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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Psalm 8
For the music leader. According to the Gittith.#8.0 Perhaps the name of an instrument (Tg) or melody. LXX About the winepresses; or About the Gittite; also in Pss 81 and 84 A psalm of David.
1 LORD, our Lord, how majestic
is your name throughout the earth!
You made your glory higher than heaven!#8.1 Correction; Heb uncertain
2From the mouths of nursing babies
you have laid a strong foundation
because of your foes,
in order to stop vengeful enemies.
3When I look up at your skies,
at what your fingers made—
the moon and the stars
that you set firmly in place—
4what are human beings
that you think about them;
what are human beings
that you pay attention to them?
5You’ve made them only slightly less than divine,
crowning them with glory and grandeur.
6You’ve let them rule over your handiwork,
putting everything under their feet—
7all sheep and all cattle,
the wild animals too,
8the birds in the sky,
the fish of the ocean,
everything that travels the pathways of the sea.
9 LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name throughout the earth!
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