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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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To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of David. O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is thy name in all the earth! Thou whose glory above the heavens is chanted
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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by the mouth of babes and infants, thou hast founded a bulwark because of thy foes, to still the enemy 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 look at thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast established;
4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?
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what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou dost care for him?
5 You have made them a little lower than the angelsand crowned them with glory and honor.
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Yet thou hast made him little less than God, and dost crown him 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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Thou hast given him dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet,
7 all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild,
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all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field,
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 of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the sea.
9 LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
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O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is thy name in all the earth!
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