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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Tehillim 8
8
(For the one directing. According to the gittit. Mizmor of Dovid)
1 Hashem Adoneinu, how excellent is Shimecha in kol ha'aretz, Who hast set Thy glory above HaShomayim.
2 Out of the mouth of olelim and infants hast Thou established strength because of Thine enemies, that Thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I consider Thy heavens, the ma'asim of Thy fingers, the yarei'ach and the kokhavim, which Thou hast ordained;
4 What is enosh (mankind), that Thou art mindful of him? And the ben adam, that Thou visitest him?
5 For Thou hast made him a little lower than elohim,#8:5 or Elohim, Gn 1:27 and hast crowned him with kavod and hadar.
6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the ma'asim of Thy hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet:
7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the behemot sadeh;
8 The fowl of the air, and the dag (fish) of the yam, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
9 Hashem Adoneinu, how excellent is Shimecha in kol ha'aretz!
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