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The Book of Psalms

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- Chapter 8 -

How majestic is your name!

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TO THE OVERSEER. ON THE GITTITH. A PSALM OF DAVID. YHWH, our Lord, || How majestic [is] Your Name in all the earth, || Who have set Your splendor on the heavens!
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From the mouths of infants and sucklings || You have founded strength, || Because of Your adversaries, || To still an enemy and a self-avenger.
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For I see Your heavens, a work of Your fingers, || [The] moon and stars that You established.
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What [is] man that You remember him? The son of man that You inspect him?
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You make him a little lower than the gods [[ or God]], || And surround him with glory and majesty.
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You cause him to rule || Over the works of Your hands, || You have placed all under his feet.
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Sheep and oxen, all of them, || And also beasts of the field,
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Bird of the heavens, and fish of the sea, || Passing through the paths of the seas!
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YHWH, our Lord, || How majestic [is] Your Name in all the earth!
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How majestic is your name!

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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.
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When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained,
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what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?
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For you have made him a little lower than the angels,(a) and crowned him with glory and honor.
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You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:
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All sheep and cattle, yes, and the animals of the field,
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the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
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LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Footnotes

(a)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 .
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