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Psalm 8

1 LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name throughout the earth! You made your glory higher than heaven!

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

2 From the mouths of nursing babies you have laid a strong foundation because of your foes, in order to stop vengeful enemies.

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

3 When I look up at your skies, at what your fingers made— the moon and the stars that you set firmly in place—

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

4 what are human beings that you think about them; what are human beings that you pay attention to them?

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

5 You've made them only slightly less than divine, crowning them with glory and grandeur.

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

6 You've let them rule over your handiwork, putting everything under their feet—

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

7 all sheep and all cattle, the wild animals too,

7 Made us lords of sheep and cattle, even animals out in the wild,

8 the birds in the sky, the fish of the ocean, everything that travels the pathways of the sea.

8 Birds flying and fish swimming, whales singing in the ocean deeps.

9 LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name throughout the earth!

9 God, brilliant Lord, your name echoes around the world.