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Psalms 8 Parallel Bible Translations
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BISHOPS Bishops' Bible of 1568 |
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| 1 | To the chiefe musition vpon Gittith, a psalme of Dauid. O God our Lorde, howe excellent is thy name in all the earth? for that thou hast set thy glory aboue the heauens. | O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. | For 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. | |
| 2 | Out of the mouth of very babes and sucklinges thou hast layde the foundation of thy strength for thyne aduersaries sake: that thou mightest styll the enemie and the auenger. | Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger. | Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger. | |
| 3 | For I will consider thy heauens, euen the workes of thy fingers: the moone and the starres whiche thou hast ordayned. | When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, | When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, | |
| 4 | What is man that thou art myndfull of him? and the sonne of man that thou visitest hym? | what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? | what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? | |
| 5 | Thou hast made hym somthyng inferiour to angels: thou hast crowned him with glory and worship. | Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. | You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor. | |
| 6 | Thou makest hym to haue dominion of the workes of thy handes: and thou hast put all thinges in subiection vnder his feete, | You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet, | You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet: | |
| 7 | All sheepe and oxen, & also the beastes of the fielde: | all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, | all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild, | |
| 8 | (8:7) the foules of the ayre, and the fishe of the sea, and whatsoeuer swymmeth in the seas. | the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas. | the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas. | |
| 9 | (8:8) O God our Lorde: howe excellent great is thy name in all the earth? | O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! | LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! | |
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