Parallel Bible results for "Psalm 8:1-6"

Psalms 8:1-6

1 God, brilliant Lord, yours is a household name.

1 LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens.

2 Nursing infants gurgle choruses about you; toddlers shout the songs That drown out enemy talk, and silence atheist babble.

2 Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.

3 I look up at your macro-skies, dark and enormous, your handmade sky-jewelry, Moon and stars mounted in their settings.

3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

4 Then I look at my micro-self and wonder, Why do you bother with us? Why take a second look our way?

4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?

5 Yet we've so narrowly missed being gods, bright with Eden's dawn light.

5 You have made them a little lower than the angelsand crowned them with glory and honor.

6 You put us in charge of your handcrafted world, repeated to us your Genesis-charge,

6 You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet: