Psalm 8:3-4

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³When I consider your heavens,^(A)
    the work of your fingers,^(B)
the moon and the stars,^(C)
    which you have set in place,
⁴what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
    human beings that you care for them?^[a]^(D)

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Footnotes

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 19:1-4

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Psalm 19^[a]

For the director of music. A psalm of David.

¹The heavens^(A) declare^(B) the glory of God;^(C)
    the skies^(D) proclaim the work of his hands.^(E)
²Day after day they pour forth speech;
    night after night they reveal knowledge.^(F)
³They have no speech, they use no words;
    no sound is heard from them.
⁴Yet their voice^[b] goes out into all the earth,
    their words to the ends of the world.^(G)
In the heavens God has pitched a tent^(H) for the sun.^(I)

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Footnotes

Psalm 19:1 In Hebrew texts 19:1-14 is numbered 19:2-15.
Psalm 19:4 Septuagint, Jerome and Syriac; Hebrew measuring line

Psalm 90:1-2

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BOOK IV

Psalms 90–106

Psalm 90

A prayer of Moses the man of God.

¹Lord, you have been our dwelling place^(A)
    throughout all generations.
²Before the mountains were born^(B)
    or you brought forth the whole world,
    from everlasting to everlasting^(C) you are God.^(D)

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Psalm 139:5-12

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⁵You hem me in^(A) behind and before,
and you lay your hand upon me.
⁶Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,^(B)
too lofty^(C) for me to attain.

⁷Where can I go from your Spirit?
    Where can I flee^(D) from your presence?
⁸If I go up to the heavens,^(E) you are there;
    if I make my bed^(F) in the depths, you are there.
⁹If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
    if I settle on the far side of the sea,
¹⁰even there your hand will guide me,^(G)
    your right hand^(H) will hold me fast.
¹¹If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
    and the light become night around me,”
¹²even the darkness will not be dark^(I) to you;
    the night will shine like the day,
    for darkness is as light to you.