Psalm 8,6 | New International Reader’s Version

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

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

2 You have made sure that children and infants praise you. Their praise is a wall that stops the talk of your enemies.

3 I think about the heavens. I think about what your fingers have created. I think about the moon and stars that you have set in place.

4 What are human beings that you think about them? What is a son of man that you take care of him?

5 You have made them a little lower than the angels. You placed on them a crown of glory and honour.

6 You made human beings rule over everything your hands created. You put everything under their control.

7 They rule over all flocks and herds and over the wild animals.

8 They rule over the birds in the sky and over the fish in the ocean. They rule over everything that swims in the oceans.

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

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English Standard Version

How Majestic Is Your Name

1 To the choirmaster: according to The 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 Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.

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

4 what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?

5 Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings* and crowned him with glory and honor.

6 You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet,

7 all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field,

8 the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

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

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