Psalms 8
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Psalm 8
For the choir director; on the gittith; #8:0 Unknown musical term. a psalm by David.
1O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name throughout the earth!
Your glory is sung above the heavens.
2From the mouths of little children and infants,
you have built a fortress against your opponents
to silence the enemy and the avenger.
3When I look at your heavens,
the creation of your fingers,
the moon and the stars that you have set in place—
4what is a mortal that you remember him
or the Son of Man that you take care of him?
5You have made him a little lower than yourself.
You have crowned him with glory and honor.
6You have made him rule what your hands created.
You have put everything under his control:
7all the sheep and cattle, the wild animals,
8the birds, the fish,
whatever swims in the currents of the seas.
9O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name throughout the earth!
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Psalms 8
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God's Glory and Human Dignity#Ps 8 Hebrew title: A psalm by David.
1O LORD, our Lord,
your greatness is seen in all the world!
Your praise reaches up to the heavens;
2 #
Mt 21.16
it is sung by children and babies.
You are safe and secure from all your enemies;
you stop anyone who opposes you.
3When I look at the sky, which you have made,
at the moon and the stars, which you set in their places —
4 #
Job 7.17–18; Ps 144.3; Heb 2.6–8 what are human beings, that you think of them;
mere mortals, that you care for them?
5Yet you made them inferior only to yourself;#8.5 yourself; or the gods, or the angels.
you crowned them with glory and honour.
6 #
1 Cor 15.27; Eph 1.22; Heb 2.8 You appointed them rulers over everything you made;
you placed them over all creation:
7sheep and cattle, and the wild animals too;
8the birds and the fish
and the creatures in the seas.
9O LORD, our Lord,
your greatness is seen in all the world!
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