Psalm 8

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Psalm 8^[a]

For the director of music. According to gittith.^[b] A psalm of David.

¹Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name^(A) in all the earth!

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

⁵You have made them^[d] a little lower than the angels^[e]^(J)
    and crowned them^[f] with glory and honor.^(K)
⁶You made them rulers^(L) over the works of your hands;^(M)
    you put everything under their^[g] feet:^(N)
⁷all flocks and herds,^(O)
    and the animals of the wild,^(P)
⁸the birds in the sky,
    and the fish in the sea,^(Q)
    all that swim the paths of the seas.

⁹Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!^(R)

Footnotes

Psalm 8:1 In Hebrew texts 8:1-9 is numbered 8:2-10.
Psalm 8:1 Title: Probably a musical term
Psalm 8:4 Or what is a human being that you are mindful of him, / a son of man that you care for him?
Psalm 8:5 Or him
Psalm 8:5 Or than God
Psalm 8:5 Or him
Psalm 8:6 Or made him ruler . . . ; / . . . his

Exodus 2:11-15

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Moses Flees to Midian

¹¹One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people^(A) were and watched them at their hard labor.^(B) He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. ¹²Looking this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. ¹³The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?”^(C)

¹⁴The man said, “Who made you ruler and judge over us?^(D) Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “What I did must have become known.”

¹⁵When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill^(E) Moses, but Moses fled^(F) from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian,^(G) where he sat down by a well.

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Romans 11:33-36

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Doxology

³³Oh, the depth of the riches^(A) of the wisdom and^[a] knowledge of God!^(B)
    How unsearchable his judgments,
    and his paths beyond tracing out!^(C)
³⁴“Who has known the mind of the Lord?
    Or who has been his counselor?”^[b]^(D)
³⁵“Who has ever given to God,
    that God should repay them?”^[c]^(E)
³⁶For from him and through him and for him are all things.^(F)
    To him be the glory forever! Amen.^(G)