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Psalms 8
A hymn framed by a single repeated line: 'how majestic is your name in all the earth' opens and closes it (v.1, v.9). Between those bookends the gaze moves from the heavens — moon and stars set in place by God's fingers (v.3) — to the small creature staring up at them. The pivot is the question in v.4: 'what is man, that you think of him?' The answer is unexpected. This frail watcher is crowned and given rule over sheep, cattle, birds, fish — everything that moves.
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LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens!
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From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.
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When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained,
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what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?
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For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and crowned him with glory and honor.
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You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:
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All sheep and cattle, yes, and the animals of the field,
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the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
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LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
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Al Músico principal: sobre Gittith: Salmo de David. OH Jehová, Señor nuestro, ¡cuán grande es tu nombre en toda la tierra, que has puesto tu gloria sobre los cielos!
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De la boca de los chiquitos y de los que maman, fundaste la fortaleza, á causa de tus enemigos, para hacer cesar al enemigo, y al que se venga.
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Cuando veo tus cielos, obra de tus dedos, la luna y las estrellas que tú formaste:
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Digo : ¿Qué es el hombre, para que tengas de él memoria, y el hijo del hombre, que lo visites?
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Pues le has hecho poco menor que los ángeles, y coronástelo de gloria y de lustre.
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Hicístelo enseñorear de las obras de tus manos; todo lo pusiste debajo de sus pies:
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Ovejas, y bueyes, todo ello; y asimismo las bestias del campo;
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Las aves de los cielos, y los peces de la mar; todo cuanto pasa por los senderos de la mar.
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Oh Jehová, Señor nuestro, ¡cuán grande es tu nombre en toda la tierra!
Strength from infants
Verse 2 is the odd hinge: strength established 'from the lips of babes and infants' to silence the enemy and the avenger. The weakest voices, not armies, are what God appoints against the proud.
That sets up the whole reversal. The same God who flung the stars notices a creature 'a little lower than the angels' and hands him dominion — greatness measured downward, from the cosmos to a child.
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