| New King James Version | Holman Christian Standard 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! | 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. |
| 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. | 2Because of Your adversaries, You have established a stronghold from the mouths of children and nursing infants to silence 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 observe Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You set in place, |
| 4What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him? | 4what is man that You remember him, the son of man that You look after him? |
| 5For You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned him with glory and honor. | 5You made him little less than God and crowned him with glory and honor. |
| 6You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet, | 6You made him lord over the works of Your hands; You put everything under his feet: |
| 7All sheep and oxen— Even the beasts of the field, | 7all the sheep and oxen, as well as the animals in the wild, |
| 8The birds of the air, And the fish of the sea That pass through the paths of the seas. | 8the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea that pass through the currents of the seas. |
| 9O LORD, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth! | 9Yahweh, our Lord, how magnificent is Your name throughout the earth! |
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