Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained;

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

When I observe Your heavens,
the work of Your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which You set in place,

International Standard Version

When I look at the heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you established

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


When I see and consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have established,

Bible in Basic English

When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have put in their places;

Darby Translation

When I see thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and stars, which thou hast established;

Julia Smith Translation

For I shall see thy heavens, the work of thy fingers; the moon and the stars which thou didst prepare.

King James 2000

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

Lexham Expanded Bible

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, [the] moon and [the] stars which you set in place--

Modern King James verseion

When I look at Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars which You have established;

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For I will consider thy heavens, even the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained.

NET Bible

When I look up at the heavens, which your fingers made, and see the moon and the stars, which you set in place,

New Heart English Bible

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

The Emphasized Bible

When I view thy heavens, the work, of thy fingers, moon and stars, which thou hast established,

Webster

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

World English Bible

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

Youngs Literal Translation

For I see Thy heavens, a work of Thy fingers, Moon and stars that Thou didst establish.

Devotionals

Devotionals about Psalm 8:3

References

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Easton

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Hastings

Morish

Images Psalm 8:3

Prayers for Psalm 8:3

Context Readings

God's Glory, Man's Dignity

2 From the mouth of infants and nursing babes You have established strength
Because of Your adversaries,
To make the enemy and the revengeful cease.
3 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained;
4 What is man that You take thought of him,
And the son of man that You care for him?

Cross References

Psalm 111:2

Great are the works of the Lord;
They are studied by all who delight in them.

Exodus 8:19

Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is the finger of God.” But Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he did not listen to them, as the Lord had said.

Exodus 31:18

When He had finished speaking with him upon Mount Sinai, He gave Moses the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written by the finger of God.

Genesis 1:1

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:16-18

God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also.

Deuteronomy 4:19

And beware not to lift up your eyes to heaven and see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, and be drawn away and worship them and serve them, those which the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.

Job 22:12

“Is not God in the height of heaven?
Look also at the distant stars, how high they are!

Job 25:3

“Is there any number to His troops?
And upon whom does His light not rise?

Job 25:5

“If even the moon has no brightness
And the stars are not pure in His sight,

Job 36:24

“Remember that you should exalt His work,
Of which men have sung.

Psalm 19:1

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
The heavens are telling of the glory of God;
And their expanse is declaring the work of His hands.

Psalm 33:6

By the word of the Lord the heavens were made,
And by the breath of His mouth all their host.

Psalm 89:11

The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours;
The world and all it contains, You have founded them.

Psalm 104:19

He made the moon for the seasons;
The sun knows the place of its setting.

Psalm 136:7-9

To Him who made the great lights,
For His lovingkindness is everlasting:

Psalm 148:3

Praise Him, sun and moon;
Praise Him, all stars of light!

Luke 11:20

But if I cast out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.

Romans 1:20

For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.

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