Psalm 8 8 Psalms Book 1 Catholic Public Domain Version How Majestic Is Your Name! 1 CPDV Unto the end. For the oil and wine presses. A Psalm of David. O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is your name throughout all the earth! For your magnificence is elevated above the heavens. BSB BSB: For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of David. O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! You have set Your glory above the heavens.
2 CPDV 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. BSB BSB: From the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise on account of Your adversaries, to silence the enemy and avenger.
4 CPDV What is man, that you are mindful of him, or the son of man, that you visit him? BSB BSB: what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
5 CPDV You reduced him to a little less than the Angels; you have crowned him with glory and honor, BSB BSB: You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor.
6 CPDV and you have set him over the works of your hands. BSB BSB: You made him ruler of the works of Your hands; You have placed everything under his feet:
7 CPDV You have subjected all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and in addition: the beasts of the field, BSB BSB: all sheep and oxen, and even the beasts of the field,
8 CPDV the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, which pass through the paths of the sea. BSB BSB: the birds of the air and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.
9 CPDV O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is your name throughout all the earth! BSB BSB: O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth!
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