| International Standard Version | English Standard Version |
| 1LORD, our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth! You set your glory above the heavens! | 1O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. |
| 2Out of the mouths of infants and nursing babies you have established strength on account of your adversaries, in order to silence the enemy and vengeful foe. | 2Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger. |
| 3When I look at the heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you established— | 3When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, |
| 4what is man that you take notice of him, or the son of man that you pay attention to him? | 4what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? |
| 5You made him a little less than divine, but you crowned him with glory and honor. | 5Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. |
| 6You gave him dominion over the work of your hands, you put all things under his feet: | 6You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet, |
| 7Sheep and cattle—all of them, wild creatures of the field, | 7all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, |
| 8birds in the sky, fish in the sea— whatever moves through the currents of the oceans. | 8the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas. |
| 9LORD, our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth! | 9O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! |
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