Psalm 8^[a]

For the director of music. According to gittith.^[b] A psalm of David.

⁴⁶ This day the Lord will deliver^(A) you into my hands, and I’ll strike you down and cut off your head. This very day I will give the carcasses^(B) of the Philistine army to the birds and the wild animals, and the whole world^(C) will know that there is a God in Israel.^(D)

²⁰ I know that you will surely be king^(A) and that the kingdom^(B) of Israel will be established in your hands.

⁸ Each of the four living creatures^(A) had six wings^(B) and was covered with eyes all around,^(C) even under its wings. Day and night^(D) they never stop saying:

⁸ The beast, which you saw, once was, now is not, and yet will come up out of the Abyss^(A) and go to its destruction.^(B) The inhabitants of the earth^(C) whose names have not been written in the book of life^(D) from the creation of the world will be astonished^(E) when they see the beast, because it once was, now is not, and yet will come.

⁸⁸ The total number of animals for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering^(A) came to twenty-four oxen, sixty rams, sixty male goats and sixty male lambs^(B) a year old. These were the offerings for the dedication of the altar after it was anointed.^(C)