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Psalm 8

O LORD, our Lord,
   how awesome is your name through all the earth!
You have set your majesty above the heavens!
   Out of the mouths of babes and infants
you have drawn a defense against your foes,
   to silence enemy and avenger.
When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers,
   the moon and stars that you set in place-
What are humans that you are mindful of them,
   mere mortals that you care for them?
Yet you have made them little less than a god,
   crowned them with glory and honor.
You have given them rule over the works of your hands,
   put all things at their feet:
All sheep and oxen,
   even the beasts of the field,
The birds of the air, the fish of the sea,
   and whatever swims the paths of the seas.
O LORD, our Lord,
   how awesome is your name through all the earth!