Psalm 8, side by side

Two versions of the same chapter. Each row is one verse, so you can see how the wording changes.

Modern

1For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. 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.

Classic

1O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.

Modern

2From the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise on account of Your adversaries, to silence the enemy and avenger.

Classic

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.

Modern

3When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—

Classic

3When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

Modern

4what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?

Classic

4What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

Modern

5You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor.

Classic

5For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

Modern

6You made him ruler of the works of Your hands; You have placed everything under his feet:

Classic

6Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

Modern

7all sheep and oxen, and even the beasts of the field,

Classic

7All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

Modern

8the birds of the air and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.

Classic

8The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

Modern

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

Classic

9O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

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