⁸ Do not rebuke mockers^(A) or they will hate you;
    rebuke the wise and they will love you.^(B)

You have set your glory^(B)
    in the heavens.^(C)
2 Through the praise of children and infants
    you have established a stronghold^(D) against your enemies,
    to silence the foe^(E) and the avenger.
³ When I consider your heavens,^(F)
    the work of your fingers,^(G)
the moon and the stars,^(H)
    which you have set in place,
⁴ what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
    human beings that you care for them?^[c](I)

⁶ By the word^(A) of the Lord the heavens were made,^(B)
    their starry host^(C) by the breath of his mouth.
⁷ He gathers the waters^(D) of the sea into jars^[a];^(E)
    he puts the deep into storehouses.
⁸ Let all the earth fear the Lord;^(F)
    let all the people of the world^(G) revere him.^(H)
9 For he spoke, and it came to be;
    he commanded,^(I) and it stood firm.