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8:1  For the director of music. According to gittith. A psalm of David. Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in the whole earth! You have set your glory in the heavens.
8:2  You have made sure that children and infants praise you. Their praise is a wall that stops the talk of your enemies.
8:3  I think about the heavens. I think about what your fingers have created. I think about the moon and stars that you have set in place.
8:4  What are human beings that you think about them? What is a son of man that you take care of him?
8:5  You have made them a little lower than the angels. You placed on them a crown of glory and honor.
8:6  You made human beings rule over everything your hands created. You put everything under their control.
8:7  They rule over all flocks and herds and over the wild animals.
8:8  They rule over the birds in the sky and over the fish in the ocean. They rule over everything that swims in the oceans.
8:9  Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in the whole earth!