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According to gittith. A psalm of David. LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext3">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 displayed Your splendor above the heavens!</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext4">To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David. O LORD our Lord, how excellent <i>is</i> thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext5">For the choir director: on the Gittith. A Davidic psalm. Yahweh, our Lord, how magnificent is Your name throughout the earth! You have covered the heavens with Your majesty. </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext3">From the mouth of infants and nursing babes You have established strength Because of Your adversaries, To make the enemy and the revengeful cease.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext4">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.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext5">Because of Your adversaries, You have established a stronghold from the mouths of children and nursing infants to silence the enemy and the avenger. </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext3">When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained;</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext4">When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext5">When I observe Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You set in place, </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext3">What is man that You take thought of him, And the son of man that You care for him?</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext4">What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext5">what is man that You remember him, the son of man that You look after him? </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/psalms/8.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/psalms/8.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/psalms/8.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/psalms/8.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/psalms/8.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext3">Yet You have made him a little lower than God, And You crown him with glory and majesty!</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext4">For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext5">You made him little less than God and crowned him with glory and honor. </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet:</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet,</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext3">You make him to rule over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet,</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext4">Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all <i>things</i> under his feet:</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext5">You made him lord over the works of Your hands; You put everything under his feet: </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild,</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field,</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext3">All sheep and oxen, And also the beasts of the field,</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext4">All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext5">all the sheep and oxen, as well as the animals in the wild, </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext3">The birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea, Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext4">The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, <i>and whatsoever</i> passeth through the paths of the seas.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext5">the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea that pass through the currents of the seas. </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext3">O LORD, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth!</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext4">O LORD our Lord, how excellent <i>is</i> thy name in all the earth!</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext5">Yahweh, our Lord, how magnificent is Your name throughout the earth! </span></td></tr></table><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><br /><br /><br />THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com" 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