17I WILL GIVE THANKS TO YAHWEH ACCORDING TO RIGHTEOUSNESS HIS AND I WILL SING PRAISE TO [THE] NAME OF YAHWEH [THE] MOST HIGH 17I will thank the LORD for His righteousness and sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.
0TO THE CHOIRMASTER ON THE GITTITH A PSALM OF DAVID How Majestic Is Your Name! 0For the choirmaster. According to Gittith.*NoteCloseGittith is probably a musical or liturgical term; here and in Psalms 81 and 84. A Psalm of David.
1O YAHWEH LORD<S> OUR HOW! MAJESTIC [IS] NAME YOUR IN ALL THE EARTH [THE ONE] WHO SET! SPLENDOR YOUR ABOVE THE HEAVENS 1O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! You have set Your glory above the heavens.
2FROM [THE] MOUTH OF CHILDREN AND SUCKLING-CHILDREN YOU HAVE ESTABLISHED STRENGTH ON ACCOUNT OF OPPOSERS YOUR TO PUT AN END TO AN ENEMY AND AN AVENGER 2From the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise*NoteCloseLiterally You have ordained strength; LXX You have prepared praise; cited in Matthew 21:16 on account of Your adversaries, to silence the enemy and avenger.
3IF I WILL SEE HEAVENS YOUR [THE] WORKS FINGERS YOUR [THE] MOON AND [THE] STARS WHICH YOU HAVE ESTABLISHED 3When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—
4WHAT? [IS] HUMANKIND THAT YOU WILL REMEMBER HIM AND A SON OF HUMANKIND THAT YOU WILL PAY ATTENTION TO HIM 4what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
5AND YOU HAVE MADE LACK HIM LITTLE FROM GOD AND HONOR AND MAJESTY YOU CROWN HIM 5You made him a little lower than the angels;*NoteCloseOr than God or than the heavenly beings; see also LXX. You crowned him with glory and honor.
6YOU MAKE RULE HIM OVER [THE] WORKS OF HANDS YOUR EVERYTHING YOU HAVE PUT UNDER FEET HIS 6You made him ruler of the works of Your hands; You have placed everything under his feet:*NoteCloseCited in 1 Corinthians 15:27 and Hebrews 2:6–8
7SHEEP AND CATTLE<S> ALL OF THEM AND ALSO [THE] ANIMALS OF [THE] FIELD 7all sheep and oxen, and even the beasts of the field,
8[THE] BIRD[S] OF [THE] HEAVENS AND [THE] FISH OF THE SEA [THAT WHICH] PASSES THROUGH [THE] PATHS OF [THE] SEAS 8the birds of the air and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.
9O YAHWEH LORD<S> OUR HOW! MAJESTIC [IS] NAME YOUR IN ALL THE EARTH 9O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth!