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Psalms 8

Royal Kingdom

Divine Majesty and Human Dignity
To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith.
A Psalm of David.

1

O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You whose glory above the heavens is chanted

2

by the mouth of babies and infants, you have founded a bulwark because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.

3

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you have established;

4

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

5

Yet you have made him little less than the angels, and you have crowned him with glory and honor.

6

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

7

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

8

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

9

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

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