Holman Christian Standard Bible | Berean Study Bible |
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. | 1For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of David. O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! You have set Your glory above the heavens. |
2Because of Your adversaries, You have established a stronghold from the mouths of children and nursing infants to silence the enemy and the avenger. | 2From the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise on account of Your adversaries, to silence the enemy and avenger. |
3When I observe Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You set in place, | 3When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place— |
4what is man that You remember him, the son of man that You look after him? | 4what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him? |
5You made him little less than God and crowned him with glory and honor. | 5You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor. |
6You made him lord over the works of Your hands; You put everything under his feet: | 6You made him ruler of the works of Your hands; You have placed everything under his feet: |
7all the sheep and oxen, as well as the animals in the wild, | 7all sheep and oxen, and even the beasts of the field, |
8the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea that pass through the currents of the seas. | 8the birds of the air and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas. |
9Yahweh, our Lord, how magnificent is Your name throughout the earth! | 9O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! |
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