Psalm 8

God's Glory, Man's Dignity 

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                                    1 For the music director, according to the gittith style; a psalm of David. O Lord, our Lord, how magnificent is your reputation throughout the earth! You reveal your majesty in the heavens above!                                

                                    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.                                

                                    1 For the choir director; on the Gittith. A Psalm of David.O Lord, our Lord,How majestic is Your name in all the earth,Who have (a)(A)displayed Your splendor above the heavens!                                

                                    1 For the choir director: on the Gittith.(A) A Davidic psalm.Yahweh, our Lord,how magnificent is Your name throughout the earth!(B)You have covered the heavens with Your majesty.(a)(C)                                

                                    1 LORD, our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth! You set your glory above the heavens!                                
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                                    2 From the mouths of children and nursing babies you have ordained praise on account of your adversaries, so that you might put an end to the vindictive enemy.                                

                                    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.                                

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

                                    2 Because of Your adversaries,You have established a stronghold(b)from the mouths of children and nursing infants(D)to silence the enemy and the avenger.                                

                                    2 Out of the mouths of infants and nursing babies you have established strength on account of your adversaries, in order to silence the enemy and vengeful foe.                                
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                                    3 When I look up at the heavens, which your fingers made, and see the moon and the stars, which you set in place,                                

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

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

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

                                    3 When I look at the heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you established                                     
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                                    4 Of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should pay attention to them,                                

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

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

                                    4 what is man that You remember him,the son of man that You look after him?(F)                                

                                    4 what is man that you take notice of him, or the son of man that you pay attention to him?                                
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                                    5 and make them a little less than the heavenly beings? You grant mankind honor and majesty;                                

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

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

                                    5 You made him little less than God(c)(d)and crowned him with glory and honor.                                

                                    5 You made him a little less than divine, but you crowned him with glory and honor.                                
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                                    6 you appoint them to rule over your creation; you have placed everything under their authority,                                

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

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

                                    6 You made him lord over the works of Your hands;You put everything under his feet:(e)(G)                                

                                    6 You gave him dominion over the work of your hands, you put all things under his feet:                                
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                                    7 including all the sheep and cattle, as well as the wild animals,                                

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

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

                                    7 all the sheep and oxen,as well as the animals in the wild,                                

                                    7 Sheep and cattle     all of them, wild creatures of the field,                                
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                                    8 the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea and everything that moves through the currents of the seas.                                

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

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

                                    8 the birds of the sky,and the fish of the seathat pass through the currents of the seas.(H)                                

                                    8 birds in the sky, fish in the sea      whatever moves through the currents of the oceans.                                
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                                    9 O Lord, our Lord, how magnificent is your reputation throughout the earth!                                

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

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

                                    9 Yahweh, our Lord,how magnificent is Your name throughout the earth!                                

                                    9 LORD, our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth! To the Director: Accompanied by female voices. A Davidic Psalm.