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8:1  For the music director, according to the gittith style; a psalm of David. O LORD, our Lord, how magnificent is your reputation throughout the earth! You reveal your majesty in the heavens above!
8:2  From the mouths of children and nursing babies you have ordained praise on account of your adversaries, so that you might put an end to the vindictive enemy.
8:3  When I look up at the heavens, which your fingers made, and see the moon and the stars, which you set in place,
8:4  Of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should pay attention to them,
8:5  and make them a little less than the heavenly beings? You grant mankind honor and majesty;
8:6  you appoint them to rule over your creation; you have placed everything under their authority,
8:7  including all the sheep and cattle, as well as the wild animals,
8:8  the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea and everything that moves through the currents of the seas.
8:9  O LORD, our Lord, how magnificent is your reputation throughout the earth!