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Psalm 8

How Majestic Is Your Name

For the choir director. According to the Gittith. A Psalm of David.

O Yahweh, our Lord,
How majestic is Your name in all the earth,
Who displays Your splendor above the heavens!
2
From the mouth of infants and nursing babies You have established strength
Because of Your adversaries,
To make the enemy and the revengeful cease.

3
When I see Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have established;
4
What is man that You remember him,
And the son of man that You care for him?
5
Yet You have made him a little lower than the angels,
And You crown him with glory and majesty!
6
You make him to rule over the works of Your hands;
You have put all things under his feet,
7
All sheep and oxen,
And also the animals of the field,
8
The birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea,
Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

9
O Yahweh, our Lord,
How majestic is Your name in all the earth!