The actual, original, first printing of the 1611 King James Version (‘HE’ Bible) — Psalms Chapter 8.

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.

² Out 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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