| New International Version | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1For the director of music. 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. | 1For 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! |
| 2Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger. | 2From the mouth of infants and nursing babes You have established strength Because of Your adversaries, To make the enemy and the revengeful cease. |
| 3When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, | 3When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained; |
| 4what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? | 4What is man that You take thought of him, And the son of man that You care for him? |
| 5You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor. | 5Yet You have made him a little lower than God, And You crown him with glory and majesty! |
| 6You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet: | 6You make him to rule over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet, |
| 7all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild, | 7All sheep and oxen, And also the beasts of the field, |
| 8the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas. | 8The birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea, Whatever passes through the paths of the seas. |
| 9LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! | 9O LORD, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth! |
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