| New King James Version | King James Bible |
| 1To the Chief Musician. On the instrument of Gath. A Psalm of David. O LORD, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth, Who have set Your glory above the heavens! | 1To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David. O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. |
| 2Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength, Because of Your enemies, That You may silence the enemy and the avenger. | 2Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still 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 consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; |
| 4What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him? | 4What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? |
| 5For You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned him with glory and honor. | 5For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. |
| 6You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet, | 6Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: |
| 7All sheep and oxen— Even the beasts of the field, | 7All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; |
| 8The birds of the air, And the fish of the sea That pass through the paths of the seas. | 8The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. |
| 9O LORD, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth! | 9O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! |
| The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved. | King James Bible, text courtesy of BibleProtector.com. |
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