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A Psalm of David.</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-1"><span class="text Ps-8-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/8-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, our Lord,</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-8-1">How excellent <i>is</i> Your name in all the earth,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-8-1">Who have set Your glory above the heavens!</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants</span><br /><span class="text Ps-8-2">You have <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>ordained strength,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-8-2">Because of Your enemies,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-8-2">That You may silence the enemy and the avenger.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-8-3">The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>What is man that You are mindful of him,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-8-4">And the son of man that You visit<span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span> him?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For You have made him a little lower than <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>the angels,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-8-5">And You have crowned him with glory and honor.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-8-6">You have put all <i>things</i> under his feet,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>All sheep and oxen—</span><br /><span class="text Ps-8-7">Even the beasts of the field,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The birds of the air,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-8-8">And the fish of the sea</span><br /><span class="text Ps-8-8">That pass through the paths of the seas.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, our Lord,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-8-9">How excellent <i>is</i> Your name in all the earth!</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-14014a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 8:1">Psalm 8:1</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb. <i>Al Gittith</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-14015b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 8:2">Psalm 8:2</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>established</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-14017c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 8:4">Psalm 8:4</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>give attention to</i> or <i>care for</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-14018d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 8:5">Psalm 8:5</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb. <i>Elohim, God;</i> LXX, Syr., Tg., Jewish tradition <i>angels</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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