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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To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of David.
1O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is thy name in all the earth!
Thou whose glory above the heavens is chanted
2 #
Mt 21.16. by the mouth of babes and infants,
thou hast founded a bulwark because of thy foes,
to still the enemy and the avenger.
3When I look at thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,
the moon and the stars which thou hast established;
4 #
Job 7.17-18; Ps 144.3; Heb 2.6-8. what is man that thou art mindful of him,
and the son of man that thou dost care for him?
5Yet thou hast made him little less than God,
and dost crown him with glory and honor.
6 #
1 Cor 15.27; Eph 1.22. Thou hast given him dominion over the works of thy hands;
thou hast put all things under his feet,
7all sheep and oxen,
and also the beasts of the field,
8the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea,
whatever passes along the paths of the sea.
9O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is thy name in all the earth!
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