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Psalm 8.
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The wonders of the heavens prompt amazement that God cares for humanity. Human dignity and responsibility are celebrated within creation’s praise of its Maker.
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- 1To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David. O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
- 2Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
- 3When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
- 4What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
- 5For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
- 6Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
- 7All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
- 8The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
- 9O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
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