Psalm 8 :: New International Version (NIV)

Psa 8:1

Psa 8:1 [fn]For the director of music. According to gittith.[fn] A psalm of David. LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens.

Psa 8:2

Psa 8:2Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.

Psa 8:3

Psa 8:3When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

Psa 8:4

Psa 8:4what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?[fn]

Psa 8:5

Psa 8:5You have made them[fn] a little lower than the angels[fn] and crowned them[fn] with glory and honor.

Psa 8:6

Psa 8:6You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their[fn] feet:

Psa 8:7

Psa 8:7all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild,

Psa 8:8

Psa 8:8the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.

Psa 8:9

Psa 8:9LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

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NIV Footnotes

(8:1)

In Hebrew texts 8:1-9 is numbered 8:2-10.

(8:1)

Title: Probably a musical term

(8:4)

Or what is a human being that you are mindful of him, / a son of man that you care for him?

Or him

Or than God

Or him

Or made him ruler . . . ; / . . . his

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