Psalm 8 8 Psalms Book 1 unfoldingWord® Literal Text How Majestic Is Your Name! 1 ULT Yahweh, our Lord, how magnificent is your name in all the earth,{ you} whose splendor is bestowed on 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 ULT Out of the mouth of children and nursing ones you have established strength because of your adversaries, to cause the enemy and avenger to end. 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 ULT what is mankind that you remember him, or the son of man that you pay attention to him? BSB BSB: what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
5 ULT Yet you have made him to lack little from the heavenly beings, and{ with} glory and majesty you have crowned him. BSB BSB: You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor.
6 ULT You made him rule over the works of your hands, everything you have put under his feet: BSB BSB: You made him ruler of the works of Your hands; You have placed everything under his feet:
7 ULT sheep and oxen— all of them, and also the animals of the field, BSB BSB: all sheep and oxen, and even the beasts of the field,
8 ULT birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea, the passers{ on} the paths of the seas. BSB BSB: the birds of the air and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.
9 ULT Yahweh, our Lord, how magnificent is your name in all the earth! BSB BSB: O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth!
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