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Psa 8:1  

To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith.[fn1] A Psalm of David.

O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.

Psa 8:2  

Out of the mouth of babes and infants,
you have established strength because of your foes,
to still the enemy and the avenger.

Psa 8:3  

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

Psa 8:4  

what is man that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man that you care for him?

Psa 8:5  

Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings[fn2]
and crowned him with glory and honor.

Psa 8:6  

You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;
you have put all things under his feet,

Psa 8:7  

all sheep and oxen,
and also the beasts of the field,

Psa 8:8  

the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,
whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

Psa 8:9  

O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Footnotes:
Probably a musical or liturgical term
Or than God; Septuagint than the angels


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