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Salme 8

Guds storhed og menneskets værdighed

1 Til korlederen: Brug strengeinstrumenter.t En sang af David.
2 Hvor er du fantastisk, vor Herre og Gud!
Ingen i verden kan måles med dig.
Universets vidundere viser din storhed.
3 Du har udvalgt småbørn til at lovprise din herlighedt
for at lukke munden på dine modstandere.
4 Når jeg ser op mod himlen, dine hænders værk,
månen og stjernerne, som du har skabt,
5 hvad er da et menneske, at du bekymrer dig om det,
et menneskebarn, at du tager dig af det?
6 Du skabte det kun lidt ringere end det guddommelige,t
gav det kongelig ære og værdighed.
7 Du gav mennesket ansvar for dit skaberværk,
det blev sat som hersker over alle ting,

8 over får og kvæg og vilde dyr,

9 fugle, fisk og alt havets liv.
10 Hvor er du fantastisk, vor Herre og Gud!
Ingen i verden kan måles med dig.

Psalm 8

For the music director, according to the gittith style; a psalm of David.

1 O Lord, our Lord,
how magnificent is your reputation throughout the earth!
You reveal your majesty in the heavens above!

2 From the mouths of children and nursing babies
you have ordained praise on account of your adversaries,
so that you might put an end to the vindictive enemy.

3 When I look up at the heavens, which your fingers made,
and see the moon and the stars, which you set in place,

4 Of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them?
Of what importance is mankind, that you should pay attention to them,

5 and make them a little less than the heavenly beings?
You grant mankind honor and majesty;

6 you appoint them to rule over your creation;
you have placed everything under their authority,

7 including all the sheep and cattle,
as well as the wild animals,

8 the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea
and everything that moves through the currents of the seas.

9 O Lord, our Lord,
how magnificent is your reputation throughout the earth!