The Message Bible MSG
King James Version KJV
1 God, brilliant Lord, yours is a household name.
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O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
2 Nursing infants gurgle choruses about you; toddlers shout the songs That drown out enemy talk, and silence atheist babble.
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Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy 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.
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When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
4 Then I look at my micro-self and wonder, Why do you bother with us? Why take a second look our way?
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What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
5 Yet we've so narrowly missed being gods, bright with Eden's dawn light.
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For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
6 You put us in charge of your handcrafted world, repeated to us your Genesis-charge,
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Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
7 Made us lords of sheep and cattle, even animals out in the wild,
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All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
8 Birds flying and fish swimming, whales singing in the ocean deeps.
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The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
9 God, brilliant Lord, your name echoes around the world.
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O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
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.
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