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1 O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.
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God, brilliant Lord, yours is a household name.
2 Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.
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Nursing infants gurgle choruses about you; toddlers shout the songs That drown out enemy talk, and silence atheist babble.
3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
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I look up at your macro-skies, dark and enormous, your handmade sky-jewelry, Moon and stars mounted in their settings.
4 what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?
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Then I look at my micro-self and wonder, Why do you bother with us? Why take a second look our way?
5 Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.
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Yet we've so narrowly missed being gods, bright with Eden's dawn light.
6 You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet,
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You put us in charge of your handcrafted world, repeated to us your Genesis-charge,
7 all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field,
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Made us lords of sheep and cattle, even animals out in the wild,
8 the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
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Birds flying and fish swimming, whales singing in the ocean deeps.
9 O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
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God, brilliant Lord, your name echoes around the world.
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® (ESV®) © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. All rights reserved. ESV Text Edition: 2025
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.