Psalm 8

English Standard Version

How Majestic Is Your Name

To the choirmaster: according to The ^(A)Gittith.^[a] A Psalm of David.

8 O Lord, our Lord,
    how majestic is your ^(B)name in all the earth!
You have set your ^(C)glory above the heavens.
²    ^(D)Out of the mouth of babies and infants,
you have established ^(E)strength because of your foes,
    to still ^(F)the enemy and the avenger.

³When I ^(G)look at your heavens, the work of your ^(H)fingers,
the moon and the stars, ^(I)which you have set in place,
⁴^(J)what is man that you are ^(K)mindful of him,
and ^(L)the son of man that you ^(M)care for him?

⁵Yet you have made him a little lower than ^(N)the heavenly beings^[b]
    and crowned him with ^(O)glory and honor.
⁶You have given him ^(P)dominion over the works of your hands;
    ^(Q)you have put all things under his feet,
⁷all sheep and oxen,
    and also the beasts of the field,
⁸the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,
    whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

⁹O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Footnotes

Psalm 8:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
Psalm 8:5 Or than God; Septuagint than the angels

Psalm 14

English Standard Version

The Fool Says, There Is No God

To the choirmaster. Of David.

14 ^(A)The ^(B)fool says in his heart, ^(C)“There is no God.”
They are ^(D)corrupt, they do abominable deeds;
^(E)there is none who does good.

²The Lord ^(F)looks down from heaven on the children of man,
to see if there are any who understand,^[a]
who ^(G)seek after God.

³They have all turned aside; together they have become ^(H)corrupt;
there is none who does good,
not even one.

⁴Have they no ^(I)knowledge, all the evildoers
who ^(J)eat up my people as they eat bread
and ^(K)do not call upon the Lord?

⁵There they are in great terror,
for God is with ^(L)the generation of the righteous.
⁶You would shame the plans of the poor,
but^[b] the Lord is his ^(M)refuge.