NET Bible | New Living Translation |
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! | 1O LORD, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth! Your glory is higher than 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. | 2You have taught children and infants to tell of your strength, silencing your enemies and all who oppose you. |
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 look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers— the moon and the stars you set in place— |
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 are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them? |
5and make them a little less than the heavenly beings? You grant mankind honor and majesty; | 5Yet you made them only a little lower than God and crowned them with glory and honor. |
6you appoint them to rule over your creation; you have placed everything under their authority, | 6You gave them charge of everything you made, putting all things under their authority— |
7including all the sheep and cattle, as well as the wild animals, | 7the flocks and the herds and all the wild animals, |
8the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea and everything that moves through the currents of the seas. | 8the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea, and everything that swims the ocean currents. |
9O LORD, our Lord, how magnificent is your reputation throughout the earth! | 9O LORD, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth! |
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