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Psalms 8

World English Bible British Edition · Berean Standard Bible

8:1
LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
For the choirmaster. According to Gittith (note: Gittith is probably a musical or liturgical term; here and in Psalms 81 and 84.). 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.
8:2
From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength,
From the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise (note: Literally You have ordained strength; LXX You have prepared praise; cited in Matthew 21:16) on account of Your adversaries, to silence the enemy and avenger.
8:3
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers,
When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—
8:4
what is man, that you think of him?
what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
8:5
For you have made him a little lower than the angels,
You made him a little lower than the angels (note: Or than God or than the heavenly beings; see also LXX.); You crowned him with glory and honor.
8:6
You make him ruler over the works of your hands.
You made him ruler of the works of Your hands; You have placed everything under his feet (note: Cited in 1 Corinthians 15:27 and Hebrews 2:6–8):
8:7
All sheep and cattle,
all sheep and oxen, and even the beasts of the field,
8:8
the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea,
the birds of the air and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.
8:9
LORD, our Lord,
O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth!