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Psalms 8 · American Standard Version (1901)

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Psalms 8

  1. 1 For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of David. O Jehovah, our Lord, How excellent is thy name in all the earth, Who hast set thy glory upon the heavens!

  2. 2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established strength, Because of thine adversaries, That thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

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

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

  5. 5 For thou hast made him but little lower than God, And crownest him with glory and honor.

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

  7. 7 All sheep and oxen, Yea, and the beasts of the field,

  8. 8 The birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, Whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

  9. 9 O Jehovah, our Lord, How excellent is thy name in all the earth!

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