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Psalms 8

1

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

2

From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.

3

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained,

4

what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?

5

For you have made him a little lower than the angels,1 and crowned him with glory and honor.

6

You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:

7

All sheep and cattle, yes, and the animals of the field,

8

the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

9

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

Footnotes

  1. ^ 8:5: Hebrew: Elohim. The word Elohim, used here, usually means “God”, but can also mean “gods”, “princes”, or “angels”. The Septuagint reads “angels” here. See also the quote from the Septuagint in Hebrews 2:7.