| New American Standard Bible 1995 | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 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! | 1For the choir director: on the Gittith. A Davidic psalm. Yahweh, our Lord, how magnificent is Your name throughout the earth! You have covered the heavens with Your majesty. |
| 2From the mouth of infants and nursing babes You have established strength Because of Your adversaries, To make the enemy and the revengeful cease. | 2Because of Your adversaries, You have established a stronghold from the mouths of children and nursing infants to silence the enemy and the avenger. |
| 3When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained; | 3When I observe Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You set in place, |
| 4What is man that You take thought of him, And the son of man that You care for him? | 4what is man that You remember him, the son of man that You look after him? |
| 5Yet You have made him a little lower than God, And You crown him with glory and majesty! | 5You made him little less than God and crowned him with glory and honor. |
| 6You make him to rule over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet, | 6You made him lord over the works of Your hands; You put everything under his feet: |
| 7All sheep and oxen, And also the beasts of the field, | 7all the sheep and oxen, as well as the animals in the wild, |
| 8The birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea, Whatever passes through the paths of the seas. | 8the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea that pass through the currents of the seas. |
| 9O LORD, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth! | 9Yahweh, our Lord, how magnificent is Your name throughout the earth! |
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