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(A psalm by David for the music leader.  m Psalm 8 leader: The Hebrew text adds “according to the gittith,” which may refer to either a musical instrument or a tune.)
The Wonderful Name of the Lord
1 Our Lord and Ruler,
your name is wonderful
everywhere on earth!
You let your glory be seen n 8.1 You ... seen: Or “I will worship your glory.”
in the heavens above.
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List of all recordings of KJV To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David.
1 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
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2 With praises from children 
and from tiny infants,
you have built a fortress.
It makes your enemies silent,
and all who turn against you
are left speechless.
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2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. ordained: Heb. founded
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3 I often think of the heavens
your hands have made,
and of the moon and stars
you put in place.
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3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
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4 Then I ask, “Why do you care
about us humans?
Why are you concerned
for us weaklings?”
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4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
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5 You made us a little lower 8.5 Ws 2.23; Si 17.1
than you yourself, o 8.5 you yourself: Or “the angels” or “the beings in heaven.”
and you have crowned us
with glory and honor.
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5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
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6 You let us rule everything
your hands have made.
And you put all of it
under our power—
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6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
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7 the sheep and the cattle,
and every wild animal,
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7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; All...: Heb. Flocks and oxen all of them
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8 the birds in the sky,
the fish in the sea,
and all ocean creatures.
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8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
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9 Our Lord and Ruler,
your name is wonderful
everywhere on earth!
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9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
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