The Message Bible MSG
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1 God, brilliant Lord, yours is a household name.
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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 Nursing infants gurgle choruses about you; toddlers shout the songs That drown out enemy talk, and silence atheist babble.
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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 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 your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
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 mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?
5 Yet we've so narrowly missed being gods, bright with Eden's dawn light.
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You have made them a little lower than the angelsand crowned them with glory and honor.
6 You put us in charge of your handcrafted world, repeated to us your Genesis-charge,
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You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet:
7 Made us lords of sheep and cattle, even animals out in the wild,
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all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild,
8 Birds flying and fish swimming, whales singing in the ocean deeps.
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the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.
9 God, brilliant Lord, your name echoes around the world.
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LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
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