Psalms 8
Below each verse in the original comes an approximate reading, in italics, for anyone who wants to pronounce the text aloud. It is not academic transliteration: it does not mark stress or settle the cases that depend on grammatical analysis, and the four-letter Name is read “Yahweh”, by the founder’s decision — the Hebrew pointing instructs saying “Adonai”, and Portuguese Bibles render it “SENHOR”.
The numbering differs in this chapter. The original has a different number of verses from the Portuguese — this happens in 134 of the 1,189 chapters, mostly in the Psalms, because the Hebrew superscription (“A psalm of David”) is counted as verse 1. That is why the two texts appear separately, each with its own numbering, instead of paired: pairing here would put a verse next to the wrong one.
1Salmo de Davi para o regente, com “Gitite”: Ah DEUS, nosso Senhor, quão glorioso é o teu nome sobre toda a terra! Pois tu puseste tua majestade acima dos céus.
2Da boca das crianças, e dos que mamam, tu fundaste força, por causa de teus adversários, para fazer cessar ao inimigo e ao vingador.
3Quando eu vejo teus céus, obra de teus dedos; a lua e as estrelas, que tu preparaste;
4O que é o homem, para que tu te lembres dele? E [o que é] o filho do homem, para que o visites?
5E tu o fizeste um pouco menor que os anjos; e com glória e honra tu o coroaste.
6Tu o fazes ter controle sobre as obras de tuas mãos; tudo puseste debaixo de seus pés.
7Ovelhas e bois, todos eles, e também os animais do campo;
8As aves dos céus, e os peixes do mar; [e] os que passam pelos caminhos dos mares.
9Ó DEUS, nosso Senhor! Quão glorioso é o teu nome sobre toda a terra!
Westminster Leningrad Codex (WLC)
1לַמְנַצֵּ֥חַ עַֽל־הַגִּתִּ֗ית מִזְמ֥וֹר לְדָוִֽד׃lamnatsecha al-hagitit mizmor ledavid
2יְהוָ֤ה אֲדֹנֵ֗ינוּ מָֽה־אַדִּ֣יר שִׁ֭מְךָ בְּכָל־הָאָ֑רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֥ר תְּנָ֥ה ה֝וֹדְךָ֗ עַל־הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃Yahweh adonenu mah-adir shimcha bechal-haarets asher tenah hodcha al-hashamayim
3מִפִּ֤י עֽוֹלְלִ֨ים ׀ וְֽיֹנְקִים֮ יִסַּ֪דְתָּ֫ עֹ֥ז לְמַ֥עַן צוֹרְרֶ֑יךָ לְהַשְׁבִּ֥ית א֝וֹיֵ֗ב וּמִתְנַקֵּֽם׃mipi ollim veyonkim yisadta oz lemaan tsorrecha lehashbit oyev umitnakem
4כִּֽי־אֶרְאֶ֣ה שָׁ֭מֶיךָ מַעֲשֵׂ֣י אֶצְבְּעֹתֶ֑יךָ יָרֵ֥חַ וְ֝כוֹכָבִ֗ים אֲשֶׁ֣ר כּוֹנָֽנְתָּה׃ki-ereh shamecha maase etsbotecha yarecha vechochavim asher konantah
5מָֽה־אֱנ֥וֹשׁ כִּֽי־תִזְכְּרֶ֑נּוּ וּבֶן־אָ֝דָ֗ם כִּ֣י תִפְקְדֶֽנּוּ׃mah-enosh ki-tizkrenu uven-adam ki tifkdenu
6וַתְּחַסְּרֵ֣הוּ מְּ֭עַט מֵאֱלֹהִ֑ים וְכָב֖וֹד וְהָדָ֣ר תְּעַטְּרֵֽהוּ׃vatchasrehu meat meelohim vechavod vehadar teatrehu
7תַּ֭מְשִׁילֵהוּ בְּמַעֲשֵׂ֣י יָדֶ֑יךָ כֹּ֝ל שַׁ֣תָּה תַֽחַת־רַגְלָֽיו׃tamshilehu bemaase yadecha kol shatah tachat-raglayv
8צֹנֶ֣ה וַאֲלָפִ֣ים כֻּלָּ֑ם וְ֝גַ֗ם בַּהֲמ֥וֹת שָׂדָֽי׃tsoneh vaalafim kulam vegam bahamot saday
9צִפּ֣וֹר שָׁ֭מַיִם וּדְגֵ֣י הַיָּ֑ם עֹ֝בֵ֗ר אָרְח֥וֹת יַמִּֽים׃tsipor shamayim udge hayam over archot yamim
10יְהוָ֥ה אֲדֹנֵ֑ינוּ מָֽה־אַדִּ֥יר שִׁ֝מְךָ֗ בְּכָל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃Yahweh adonenu mah-adir shimcha bechal-haarets
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All Scripture quoted in Portuguese is from the Bíblia Livre (BLIVRE), Copyright © Diego Santos, Mario Sérgio and Marco Teles, February 2018. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Brazil licence. Reproduction permitted provided the source and the authors are duly credited.
Hebrew text of the Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain, in the digital edition distributed by eBible.org. The Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology is NOT included here — it has its own licence, with a credit requirement.