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The Lord’s Greatness

For the director of music. On the gittith [C perhaps a musical term or instrument]. A psalm of David.

Lord our Lord,
    ·Your name is the most wonderful name [L How majestic is your name] in all the earth [Ex. 3:14–15]!
    ·It brings you praise [L You have set your splendor/glory] in heaven above [Rom. 1:20].
·You have taught children and babies
    to sing praises to you [L Out of the mouth of babies and infants you have established/founded strength]
    because of your enemies.
And so you silence your enemies
    and those who try to get ·even [revenge].

I look at your heavens,
    ·which you made with [L the work of] your fingers.
I see the moon and stars,
    which you ·created [L established; Gen. 1:17–18].
·But why are people even important to you [L What are people that you remember them]?
    Why do you take care of ·human beings [L the son of man]?
You made them a little lower than ·the angels [or God]
    and crowned them with glory and honor [Gen. 1:26–27].
You ·put them in charge of [give them rule over] ·everything you made [L the work of your hands].
    You put all things under their ·control [L feet; Heb. 2:6–8]:
all the sheep, the cattle,
    and the ·wild animals [L beasts of the field],
the birds in the ·sky [heavens],
    the fish in the sea,
and everything that ·lives under water [L passes/travels on the paths of the sea; Gen. 1:28; 9:1–3].

Lord our Lord,
·your name is the most wonderful [L how majestic is your] name in all the earth!

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