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Psalm 8 · Book One · David

For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of David.

The Hebrew title · Berean Standard Bible

For the choirmaster

About this psalm

It begins and ends with the same words — O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth — and in between it asks the question the night sky asks: When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; what is man, that thou art mindful of him? The answer it gives is not that man is nothing.

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¹O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.²Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.³When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;⁴What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?⁵For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.⁶Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands;thou hast put all things under his feet:⁷All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;⁸The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.⁹O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

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