THE BOOKE OF Psalmes. Chapter 8

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CHAP. VIII.

Gods glory is magnified by his workes, and by his loue to man.

¹[To the chiefe Musicion vpon Gittith, a Psalme of Dauid.] O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory aboue the heauens.

²Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength, because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemie and the auenger.²

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³When I consider thy heauens, the worke of thy fingers, the moone and the starres which thou hast ordained;

⁴What is man, that thou art mindfull of him? and the sonne of man, that thou visitest him?⁴

⁵For thou hast made him a little lower then the Angels; and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

⁶Thou madest him to haue dominion ouer the workes of thy hands; thou hast put all things vnder his feete.⁶

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⁷All sheepe and oxen, yea and the beasts of the field.⁷

⁸The foule of the aire, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoeuer passeth through the paths of the seas.

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

Original 1611 KJV Sidenote References for Psalms Chapter 8

² Mat.21. 16. , Heb. founded.
⁴ Iob 7.17. psal.144.3. Heb. 2.6.
⁶ 1.Cor.15. 27.
⁷ Heb. flocks and oxen, all of them.

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