Psalms 8
8
1 God, brilliant Lord,
yours is a household name.
2Nursing infants gurgle choruses about you;
toddlers shout the songs
That drown out enemy talk,
and silence atheist babble.
3-4I look up at your macro-skies, dark and enormous,
your handmade sky-jewelry,
Moon and stars mounted in their settings.
Then I look at my micro-self and wonder,
Why do you bother with us?
Why take a second look our way?
5-8Yet we’ve so narrowly missed being gods,
bright with Eden’s dawn light.
You put us in charge of your handcrafted world,
repeated to us your Genesis-charge,
Made us stewards of sheep and cattle,
even animals out in the wild,
Birds flying and fish swimming,
whales singing in the ocean deeps.
9 God, brilliant Lord,
your name echoes around the world.
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Psalm 8
8
God's Glory and Man's Honor
To the chief Musician upon Git´tith, A Psalm of David.
1O Lord our Lord,
how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
2 #
Matt 21.16. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength
because of thine enemies,
that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
3When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,
the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
4 #
Job 7.17,18; Ps 144.3; Heb 2.6-8. what is man, that thou art mindful of him?
and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
5For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels,#8.5 angels, Hebrew Elohim, God.
and hast crowned him with glory and honor.
6 #
1 Cor 15.27; Eph 1.22; Heb 2.8. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands;
thou hast put all things under his feet:
7all sheep and oxen,
yea, and the beasts of the field;
8the fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea,
and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
9O Lord our Lord,
how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
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