Psalm 8
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1For 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 in the heavens.1For the choir director: on the Gittith. A Davidic psalm. Yahweh, our Lord, how magnificent is Your name throughout the earth! You have covered the heavens with Your majesty.
2Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.2Because of Your adversaries, You have established a stronghold from the mouths of children and nursing infants to silence the enemy and the avenger.
3When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,3When I observe Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You set in place,
4what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?4what is man that You remember him, the son of man that You look after him?
5You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor.5You made him little less than God and crowned him with glory and honor.
6You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet:6You made him lord over the works of Your hands; You put everything under his feet:
7all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild,7all the sheep and oxen, as well as the animals in the wild,
8the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.8the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea that pass through the currents of the seas.
9LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!9Yahweh, our Lord, how magnificent is Your name throughout the earth!
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