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Psalm 8

1 LORD, our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth! You set your glory above the heavens!

2 Out of the mouths of infants and nursing babies you have established strength ^b on account of your adversaries, in order to silence the enemy and vengeful foe.

3 When I look at the heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you established—

4 what is man that you take notice of him, or the son of man ^c that you pay attention to him?

5 You made him a little less than divine, ^d but you crowned him with glory and honor.

6 You gave him dominion over the work of your hands, you put all things under his feet:

7 Sheep and cattle—all of them, wild creatures of the field,

8 birds in the sky, fish in the sea— whatever moves through the currents of the oceans.

9 LORD, our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth!