Promise 120: Your Majestic Name

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Psalm 8

New Living Translation

1 O Lord, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth!     Your glory is higher than the heavens. 2 You have taught children and infants     to tell of your strength,[b] silencing your enemies     and all who oppose you.

3 When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers—     the moon and the stars you set in place— 4 what are mere mortals that you should think about them,     human beings that you should care for them?[c] 5 Yet you made them only a little lower than God[d]     and crowned them[e] with glory and honor. 6 You gave them charge of everything you made,     putting all things under their authority— 7 the flocks and the herds     and all the wild animals, 8 the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea,     and everything that swims the ocean currents.

9 O Lord, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth!

 

 

Psalm 8

The Message

8 God, brilliant Lord,     yours is a household name.

2 Nursing infants gurgle choruses about you;     toddlers shout the songs That drown out enemy talk,     and silence atheist babble.

3-4 I look up at your macro-skies, dark and enormous,     your handmade sky-jewelry, Moon and stars mounted in their settings.     Then I look at my micro-self and wonder, Why do you bother with us?     Why take a second look our way?

5-8 Yet we’ve so narrowly missed being gods,     bright with Eden’s dawn light. You put us in charge of your handcrafted world,     repeated to us your Genesis-charge, Made us stewards of sheep and cattle,     even animals out in the wild, Birds flying and fish swimming,     whales singing in the ocean deeps.

9 God, brilliant Lord,     your name echoes around the world.