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How Majestic Is Your Name

To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith.^[a] A Psalm of David.

 O Lord, our Lord,
   how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.
² Out of the mouth of babies and infants,
you have established strength because of your foes,
   to still the enemy and the avenger.

³ When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
⁴ what is man that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man that you care for him?

⁵ Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings^[b]
and crowned him with glory and honor.
⁶ You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;
you have put all things under his feet,
⁷ all sheep and oxen,
and also the beasts of the field,
⁸ the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,
whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

⁹ O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Footnotes:

1. Psalm 8:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
2. Psalm 8:5 Or than God; Septuagint than the angels

Cross references:

1. Psalm 8:1 : Ps. 81, title; 84, title
2. Psalm 8:1 : Ps. 148:13; Isa. 12:4; [Ex. 34:5]
3. Psalm 8:1 : Ps. 113:4
4. Psalm 8:2 : Cited Matt. 21:16; [Matt. 11:25; 1 Cor. 1:27]
5. Psalm 8:2 : Jer. 16:19
6. Psalm 8:2 : Ps. 44:16
7. Psalm 8:3 : [Ps. 111:2]
8. Psalm 8:3 : Ex. 8:19; 31:18
9. Psalm 8:3 : Gen. 1:16
10. Psalm 8:4 : Cited Heb. 2:6-8; [Ps. 144:3; Job 7:17; 25:6]
11. Psalm 8:4 : [Gen. 8:1]
12. Psalm 8:4 : Ps. 80:17
13. Psalm 8:4 : Ps. 65:9; Gen. 21:1; 50:24
14. Psalm 8:5 : [Gen. 1:26]
15. Psalm 8:5 : Ps. 21:5
16. Psalm 8:6 : Gen. 1:26, 28
17. Psalm 8:6 : Cited 1 Cor. 15:27; [Matt. 28:18]