| New King James Version | New International Version |
| 1To the Chief Musician. On the instrument of Gath. A Psalm of David. O LORD, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth, Who have set Your glory above the heavens! | 1For the director of music. According to gittith. A psalm of David. LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens. |
| 2Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength, Because of Your enemies, That You may silence the enemy and the avenger. | 2Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe 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 your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, |
| 4What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him? | 4what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? |
| 5For You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned him with glory and honor. | 5You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor. |
| 6You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet, | 6You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet: |
| 7All sheep and oxen— Even the beasts of the field, | 7all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild, |
| 8The birds of the air, And the fish of the sea That pass through the paths of the seas. | 8the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas. |
| 9O LORD, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth! | 9LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! |
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