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
To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. A Psalm of David.
1Jehovah our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy majesty above the heavens. 2Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established praise because of thine adversaries, to still the enemy and the avenger.
3When I see thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and stars, which thou hast established; 4What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? 5Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and splendour. 6Thou hast made him to rule over the works of thy hands; thou hast put everything under his feet: 7Sheep and oxen, all of them, and also the beasts of the field; 8The fowl of the heavens, and the fishes of the sea, whatever passeth through the paths of the seas. 9Jehovah our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
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First published in 1890. This edition is maintained by the British and Foreign Bible Society.