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Psalm 8

Divine Majesty and Human Dignity

To the leader: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of David.

O Lord, our Sovereign,
    how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory above the heavens.(A)

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When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
    the moon and the stars that you have established;(A)
what are humans that you are mindful of them,
    mortals[a] that you care for them?(B)

Yet you have made them a little lower than God[b]
    and crowned them with glory and honor.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 8.4 Heb son of man
  2. 8.5 Or than the divine beings or angels

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

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