New International Version | NET Bible |
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 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! |
2Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe 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 your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, | 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 mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? | 4Of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should pay attention to them, |
5You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor. | 5and make them a little less than the heavenly beings? You grant mankind honor and majesty; |
6You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet: | 6you appoint them to rule over your creation; you have placed everything under their authority, |
7all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild, | 7including all the sheep and cattle, as well as the wild animals, |
8the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim 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. |
9LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! | 9O LORD, our Lord, how magnificent is your reputation throughout the earth! |
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