Terrence L Pounds Study Edition · Developing edition · October 20, 2026
Your Terrence L Pounds Study Edition and commentary remain below. WEB Classic already uses Yahweh. External translations retain their published wording.
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Psalms 8
To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David.
1 O Yahweh our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
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O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
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For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
Language note. The KJV reads angels for the underlying Elohim expression. This edition retains that translation and identifies the headword through its glossary link; replacing it automatically with the capitalized title Elohim would conceal an interpretive decision.
6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
9 O Yahweh our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
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O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!