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For the music director. On the gittith. A psalm of David.
1 Lord, our Lord, your magnificent reputation* fills the earth! Your majesty is greater than the heavens above,
2 and is sung by the voices of children and infants. Your strength counters your opponents, silencing the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I contemplate the heavens that your hands made, the moon and stars that you placed there,
4 What are human beings that you should concern yourself with them? What are people that you should care for them?
5 You created them a little lower than God,† crowning them with glory and majesty.
6 You put them in charge of all that you made, giving them authority over everything:
7 the sheep, the cattle, and the wild animals,
8 the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea—everything that swims in the ocean.
9 Lord, our Lord, your magnificent reputation fills the earth!
* 8:1 Literally, “name.” In Hebrew thought name was a description of reputation and character. † 8:5 “God”: or, “the angels” or “heavenly beings.” The word used is “elohim,” one of the usual names for God.