The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
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1 For the leader. On the gittit. A psalm of David: ADONAI! Our Lord! How glorious is your name throughout the earth! The fame of your majesty spreads even above the heavens!
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LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens.
2 From the mouths of babies and infants at the breast you established strength because of your foes, in order that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.
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Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.
3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and stars that you set in place -
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When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
4 what are mere mortals, that you concern yourself with them; humans, that you watch over them with such care?
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what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?
5 You made him but little lower than the angels, you crowned him with glory and honor,
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You have made them a little lower than the angelsand crowned them with glory and honor.
6 you had him rule what your hands made, you put everything under his feet -
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You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet:
7 sheep and oxen, all of them, also the animals in the wilds,
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all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild,
8 the birds in the air, the fish in the sea, whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
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the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.
9 ADONAI! Our Lord! How glorious is your name throughout the earth!
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LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!