Psalm 8, side by side
Two versions of the same chapter. Each row is one verse, so you can see how the wording changes.
1The LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens!
1O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
2From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.
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 your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;
3When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
4what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?
4What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
5For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and crowned him with glory and honor.
5For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
6You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:
6Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
7All sheep and cattle, yes, and the animals of the field,
7All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
8the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
8The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
9The LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
9O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
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