Psalm 8 8 Psalms Book 1 Revised Version How Majestic Is Your Name! 1 RV For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of David. O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory upon 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 RV Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established strength, because of thine adversaries, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. 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 RV What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? BSB BSB: what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
5 RV For thou hast made him but little lower than God, and crownest him with glory and honour. BSB BSB: You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor.
6 RV Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: BSB BSB: You made him ruler of the works of Your hands; You have placed everything under his feet:
7 RV All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; BSB BSB: all sheep and oxen, and even the beasts of the field,
8 RV The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatsoever passeth through 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 RV O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! BSB BSB: O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth!
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