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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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LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens.
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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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 the stars, which you have 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 is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?
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what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?
5 Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and 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 have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet,
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You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet:
7 all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field,
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all flocks and herds, and the animals of 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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the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.
9 O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
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LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
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