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Psalm 8

1 O LORD, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth! 

Your glory is higher than the heavens. 

2 You have taught children and infants to tell of your strength, 

silencing your enemies 

and all who oppose you.

 

3 When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers— 

the moon and the stars you set in place— 

4 what are mere mortals that you should think about them, 

human beings that you should care for them? 

5 Yet you made them only a little lower than God 

and crowned them with glory and honor.

 

6 You gave them charge of everything you made, 

putting all things under their authority— 

7 the flocks and the herds and all the wild animals,

 

8 the birds in the sky, 

the fish in the sea, 

and everything that swims the ocean currents. 

9 O LORD, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth!