| King James Bible | NET Bible |
| 1To 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. | 1For 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! |
| 2Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. | 2From 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. |
| 3When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; | 3When I look up at the heavens, which your fingers made, and see the moon and the stars, which you set in place, |
| 4What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? | 4Of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should pay attention to them, |
| 5For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. | 5and make them a little less than the heavenly beings? You grant mankind honor and majesty; |
| 6Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: | 6you appoint them to rule over your creation; you have placed everything under their authority, |
| 7All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; | 7including all the sheep and cattle, as well as the wild animals, |
| 8The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. | 8the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea and everything that moves through the currents of the seas. |
| 9O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! | 9O LORD, our Lord, how magnificent is your reputation throughout the earth! |
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