Psalm 8

The Lord’s Glory and Man’s Dignity.

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O Lord, our Lord,
How majestic is Your name in all the earth,
Who have ^(a)^(A)displayed Your splendor above the heavens!

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^(B)From the mouth of infants and nursing babes You have established ^(b)^(C)strength
Because of Your adversaries,
To make ^(D)the enemy and the revengeful cease.

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When I ^(c)^(E)consider ^(F)Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The ^(G)moon and the stars, which You have ^(d)ordained;

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^(H)What is man that You ^(e)take thought of him,
And the son of man that You care for him?

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Yet You have made him a ^(I)little lower than ^(f)God,
And ^(J)You crown him with ^(K)glory and majesty!

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You make him to ^(L)rule over the works of Your hands;
You have ^(M)put all things under his feet,

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All sheep and oxen,
And also the ^(g)beasts of the field,

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The birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea,
Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

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^(N)O Lord, our Lord,
How majestic is Your name in all the earth!

Footnotes:

a. Psalm 8:1: ['Or ', set]

b. Psalm 8:2: ['Or ', a bulwark]

c. Psalm 8:3: ['Or ', see]

d. Psalm 8:3: ['Or ', appointed, fixed]

e. Psalm 8:4: ['Or ', remember him]

f. Psalm 8:5: ['Or ', the angels, '; Heb ', Elohim]

g. Psalm 8:7: ['Or ', animals]

Cross references:

A. Psalm 8:1: Psalm 57:5; Psalm 57:11; Psalm 113:4; Psalm 148:13

B. Psalm 8:2: Matthew 21:16; 1 Corinthians 1:27

C. Psalm 8:2: Psalm 29:1; Psalm 118:14

D. Psalm 8:2: Psalm 44:16

E. Psalm 8:3: Psalm 111:2

F. Psalm 8:3: Psalm 89:11; Psalm 144:5

G. Psalm 8:3: Psalm 136:9

H. Psalm 8:4: Job 7:17; Psalm 144:3; Hebrews 2:6-8

I. Psalm 8:5: Genesis 1:26; Psalm 82:6

J. Psalm 8:5: Psalm 103:4

K. Psalm 8:5: Psalm 21:5

L. Psalm 8:6: Genesis 1:26; Genesis 1:28

M. Psalm 8:6: 1 Corinthians 15:27; Ephesians 1:22; Hebrews 2:8

N. Psalm 8:9: Psalm 8:1