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Psalm 8
New International Version

### Psalm 8[a]

#### For the director of music. According to gittith.[b] A psalm of David.

1 Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name(A) in all the earth!

You have set your glory(B)
in the heavens.(C)
2 Through the praise of children and infants
you have established a stronghold(D) against your enemies,
to silence the foe(E) and the avenger.
3 When I consider your heavens,(F)
the work of your fingers,(G)
the moon and the stars,(H)
which you have set in place,
4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them?[c](I)

5 You have made them[d] a little lower than the angels[e](J)
and crowned them[f] with glory and honor.(K)
6 You made them rulers(L) over the works of your hands;(M)
you put everything under their[g] feet:(N)
7 all flocks and herds,(O)
and the animals of the wild,(P)
8 the birds in the sky,
and the fish in the sea,(Q)
all that swim the paths of the seas.

9 Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!(R)

#### Footnotes

1. Psalm 8:1 In Hebrew texts 8:1-9 is numbered 8:2-10.
2. Psalm 8:1 Title: Probably a musical term
3. Psalm 8:4 Or what is a human being that you are mindful of him, / a son of man that you care for him?
4. Psalm 8:5 Or him
5. Psalm 8:5 Or than God
6. Psalm 8:5 Or him
7. Psalm 8:6 Or made him ruler . . . ; / . . . his

#### Cross references

1. Psalm 8:1 : S 1Ch 16:10
2. Psalm 8:1 : S Ex 15:11; Lk 2:9
3. Psalm 8:1 : Ps 57:5; 108:5; 113:4; 148:13; Hab 3:3
4. Psalm 8:2 : Mt 21:16*
5. Psalm 8:2 : Ps 143:12
6. Psalm 8:3 : S Ge 15:5; S Dt 10:14
7. Psalm 8:3 : S Ex 8:19; S 1Ch 16:26; S 2Ch 2:12; Ps 102:25
8. Psalm 8:3 : S Ge 1:16; 1Co 15:41
9. Psalm 8:4 : S 1Ch 29:14
10. Psalm 8:5 : S Ge 1:26
11. Psalm 8:5 : Ps 21:5; 103:4
12. Psalm 8:6 : S Ge 1:28
13. Psalm 8:6 : S Job 10:3; Ps 19:1; 102:25; 145:10; Isa 26:12; 29:23; 45:11; Heb 1:10
14. Psalm 8:6 : S 1Ki 5:3; 1Co 15:25, 27*; Eph 1:22; Heb 2:6-8*
15. Psalm 8:7 : Ge 13:5; 26:14
16. Psalm 8:7 : S Ge 2:19
17. Psalm 8:8 : Ge 1:26
18. Psalm 8:9 : ver 1

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