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| 1 [[To the Chief Musician. On "the Gittith." A Melody of David.]] O Yahweh, our Lord! How majestic is thy Name, in all the earth, Who hast set thy splendour upon the heavens. |
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| 2 Out of the mouth of children and sucklings, hast thou laid a foundation of strength,–because of thine adversaries, to make foe and avenger be still. |
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| 3 When I view thy heavens, the work, of thy fingers, moon and stars, which thou hast established, |
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| 4 What was weak man, that thou shouldst make mention of him? or the son of the earthborn, that thou shouldst set him in charge? |
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| 5 That thou shouldst make him little less than messengers of God, with glory and honour, shouldst crown him? |
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| 6 Shouldst give him dominion over the works of thy hands,–All things, shouldst have put under his feet: |
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| 7 Sheep and oxen, all of them,–yea even the beasts of the field; |
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| 8 The bird of the heavens, and the fishes of the sea,–the passer-by on the paths of the seas? |
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| 9 O Yahweh, our Lord! How majestic is thy Name, in all the earth. |
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