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Psalms 8

David marvels that the God whose name fills the earth and whose glory is above the heavens should care for human beings. Looking at the moon and stars, he asks what man is, and answers that God has crowned people with glory and given them rule over his works.

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Key verses

  • Verse 1God's name is great across all the earth.
  • Verse 3The night sky shows how vast God's work is.
  • Verse 4Yet God still pays attention to each person.

O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.SelectedPsalms 8:1Ask

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.SelectedPsalms 8:2Ask

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;SelectedPsalms 8:3Ask

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?SelectedPsalms 8:4Ask

For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.SelectedPsalms 8:5Ask

Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:SelectedPsalms 8:6Ask

All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;SelectedPsalms 8:7Ask

The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.SelectedPsalms 8:8Ask

O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!SelectedPsalms 8:9Ask

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