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            New International Version NIV
          
            
              1 LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in 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 Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe 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 consider 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 mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?
            
            
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what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?            
            
              5 You have made them a little lower than the angelsand crowned them 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 made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet:
            
            
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You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet:            
            
              7 all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild,
            
            
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all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild,            
            
              8 the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim 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 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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              Scripture quoted by permission.  Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®.  NIV®.  Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011  by Biblica.  All rights reserved worldwide.