Psalms 8
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For the leader: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by a stringed instrument.
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Lord our God! How glorious in all the earth is your name! Your praise reaches as high as the heavens,
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from the mouths of children and infants. You have built a fortress against your enemies, to silence the foe and the rebel.
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When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set there,
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what are mortals, that you think of them, humans, that you visit them?
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Yet you made them little less than divine, crowned them with glory and majesty,
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made them lord of the works of your hands, put all things under their feet –
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sheep and oxen, all of them; and the wild beasts also:
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birds of the air, and fish of the sea, and all that crosses the paths of the ocean.
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Lord our God! How glorious in all the earth is your name!
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