Ps.8.1

GOD, brilliant Lord, yours is a household name.

Ps.8.1

O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.

Ps.8.1

O LORD, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth, Who have set Your glory above the heavens!

Ps.8.1

O LORD, our Lord, the majesty of your name fills the earth! Your glory is higher than the heavens.

Ps.8.2

Nursing infants gurgle choruses about you; toddlers shout the songs That drown out enemy talk, and silence atheist babble.

Ps.8.2

From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise because of your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.

Ps.8.2

Out 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.

Ps.8.2

You have taught children and nursing infants to give you praise. They silence your enemies who were seeking revenge.

Ps.8.3

I look up at your macro-skies, dark and enormous, your handmade sky-jewelry, Moon and stars mounted in their settings.

Ps.8.3

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

Ps.8.3

When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,

Ps.8.3

When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers--the moon and the stars you have set in place--

Ps.8.4

Then I look at my micro-self and wonder, Why do you bother with us? Why take a second look our way?

Ps.8.4

what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?

Ps.8.4

What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him?

Ps.8.4

what are mortals that you should think of us, mere humans that you should care for us?

Ps.8.5

Yet we've so narrowly missed being gods, bright with Eden's dawn light.

Ps.8.5

You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.

Ps.8.5

For You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned him with glory and honor.

Ps.8.5

For you made us only a little lower than God, and you crowned us with glory and honor.

Ps.8.6

You put us in charge of your handcrafted world, repeated to us your Genesis-charge,

Ps.8.6

You made him ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet:

Ps.8.6

You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet,

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You put us in charge of everything you made, giving us authority over all things--

Ps.8.7

Made us lords of sheep and cattle, even animals out in the wild,

Ps.8.7

all flocks and herds, and the beasts of the field,

Ps.8.7

All sheep and oxen-- Even the beasts of the field,

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the sheep and the cattle and all the wild animals,

Ps.8.8

Birds flying and fish swimming, whales singing in the ocean deeps.

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the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.

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The birds of the air, And the fish of the sea That pass through the paths of the seas.

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the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea, and everything that swims the ocean currents.

Ps.8.9

GOD, brilliant Lord, your name echoes around the world.

Ps.8.9

O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Ps.8.9

O LORD, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth!

Ps.8.9

O LORD, our Lord, the majesty of your name fills the earth!