Psalm 8

New International Version

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For the director of music. According to gittith. A psalm of David.

1 Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens. 

2 Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger. 

3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, 

4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? 

5 You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honour. 

6 You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet: 

7 all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild, 

8 the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas. 

9 Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! 

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Psalm 8

King James Version

1 To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David. O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. 

2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. 

3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; 

4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? 

5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. 

6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: 

7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; 

8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. 

9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! 

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Psalm 8

Elberfelder Bibel

from SCM Verlag

Psalm 8

1 Dem Chorleiter. Nach der Gittit. Ein Psalm. Von David. (Ps 81:1; Ps 84:1) 

2 HERR, unser Herr, wie herrlich ist dein Name auf der ganzen Erde, der du deine Hoheit gelegt hast auf den Himmel! (Ps 57:6; Ps 148:13; Isa 6:3) 

3 Aus dem Munde der Kinder und Säuglinge hast du Macht gegründet wegen deiner Bedränger, um zum Schweigen zu bringen den Feind und den Rachgierigen. (Mt 21:16) 

4 Wenn ich anschaue deinen Himmel, deiner Finger Werk, den Mond und die Sterne, die du bereitet hast: (Ge 1:1; Ge 1:14; Ps 19:2; Ps 96:5; Ps 136:5) 

5 Was ist der Mensch, dass du seiner gedenkst, und des Menschen Sohn, dass du dich um ihn kümmerst? (Job 7:17; Ps 144:3) 

6 Denn du hast ihn wenig geringer gemacht als Engel, mit Herrlichkeit und Pracht krönst du ihn. 

7 Du machst ihn zum Herrscher über die Werke deiner Hände; alles hast du unter seine Füße gestellt: (Ge 1:26; 1Co 15:27; Heb 2:6) 

8 Schafe und Rinder allesamt und auch die Tiere des Feldes, 

9 die Vögel des Himmels und die Fische des Meeres, was die Pfade der Meere durchzieht. 

10 HERR, unser Herr, wie herrlich ist dein Name auf der ganzen Erde! (Isa 63:14) 

Elberfelder Bibel 2006, © 2006 by SCM R.Brockhaus in der SCM Verlagsgruppe GmbH, Witten/Holzgerlingen