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The Book of Psalms

Geneva Bible 1599

- Chapter 8 -

How majestic is your name!

1
To him that excelleth on Gittith. A Psalme of Dauid. O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy Name in all the worlde! which hast set thy glory aboue the heauens.
2
Out of the mouth of babes and suckelings hast thou ordeined strength, because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemie and the auenger.
3
When I beholde thine heauens, euen the workes of thy fingers, the moone and the starres which thou hast ordeined,
4
What is man, say I, that thou art mindefull of him? and the sonne of man, that thou visitest him?
5
For thou hast made him a little lower then God, and crowned him with glory and worship.
6
Thou hast made him to haue dominion in the workes of thine hands: thou hast put all things vnder his feete:
7
All sheepe and oxen: yea, and the beastes of the fielde:
8
The foules of the ayre, and the fish of the sea, and that which passeth through the paths of the seas.
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O Lord our Lord, howe excellent is thy Name in all the world!