| New International Version | New International Version |
| 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 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. |
| 2Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger. | 2Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger. |
| 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 set in place, |
| 4what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? | 4what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? |
| 5You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor. | 5You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor. |
| 6You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet: | 6You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet: |
| 7all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild, | 7all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild, |
| 8the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas. | 8the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas. |
| 9LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! | 9LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! |
| New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide. | New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide. |
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