| NET Bible | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 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! | 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! |
| 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. | 2From the mouth of infants and nursing babes You have established strength Because of Your adversaries, To make the enemy and the revengeful cease. |
| 3When I look up at the heavens, which your fingers made, and see the moon and the stars, which you set in place, | 3When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained; |
| 4Of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should pay attention to them, | 4What is man that You take thought of him, And the son of man that You care for him? |
| 5and make them a little less than the heavenly beings? You grant mankind honor and majesty; | 5Yet You have made him a little lower than God, And You crown him with glory and majesty! |
| 6you appoint them to rule over your creation; you have placed everything under their authority, | 6You make him to rule over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet, |
| 7including all the sheep and cattle, as well as the wild animals, | 7All sheep and oxen, And also the beasts of the field, |
| 8the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea and everything that moves through the currents of the seas. | 8The birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea, Whatever passes through the paths of the seas. |
| 9O LORD, our Lord, how magnificent is your reputation throughout the earth! | 9O LORD, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth! |
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