For the director of music. According to gittith. A psalm of David. LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.
NIV
To the Chief Musician; set to a Philistine lute, or [possibly] to a particular Hittite tune. A Psalm of David. O LORD, our Lord, how excellent (majestic and glorious) is Your name in all the earth! You have set Your glory on [or above] the heavens.
AMP
O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
KJV
"Your Majesty looked, and there before you stood a large statue – an enormous, dazzling statue, awesome in appearance."
NIV
You, O king, saw, and behold, [there was] a great image. This image which was mighty and of exceedingly great brightness stood before you, and the appearance of it was frightening and terrible.
AMP
Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.
KJV
So he became as much superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is superior to theirs.
NIV
[Taking a place and rank by which] He Himself became as much superior to angels as the glorious Name (title) which He has inherited is different from and more excellent than theirs.
AMP
Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
KJV
Now eagerly desire the greater gifts. And yet I will show you the most excellent way.
NIV
But earnestly desire and zealously cultivate the greatest and best gifts and graces (the higher gifts and the choicest graces). And yet I will show you a still more excellent way [one that is better by far and the highest of them all--love].
AMP
But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
KJV
In that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of the survivors in Israel.
NIV
In that day the Branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be excellent and lovely to those of Israel who have escaped. [Jer. 23:5; 33:15; Zech. 3:8; 6:12.]AMP
In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
KJV
His legs are pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, choice as its cedars.
NIV
His legs are like strong and steady pillars of marble set upon bases of fine gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent, stately, and majestic as the cedars.
AMP
His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
KJV