The Lord’s Glory and Man’s Dignity.
1 O Lord, our Lord, How majestic and glorious and excellent is Your name in all the earth! You have displayed Your splendor above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouths of infants and nursing babes You have established strength Because of Your adversaries, That You might silence the enemy and make the revengeful cease. [Matt 21:15, 16]
3 When I see and consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have established,
4 What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of [earthborn] man that You care for him?
5 Yet You have made him a little lower than God, And You have crowned him with glory and honor.
6 You made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet, [1 Cor 15:27; Eph 1:22, 23; Heb 2:6-8]
7 All sheep and oxen, And also the beasts of the field,
8 The birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
9 O Lord, our Lord, How majestic and glorious and excellent is Your name in all the earth!