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Psalms 8 (MSG)

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¹ A David psalm. 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 I look up at your macro-skies, dark and enormous, your handmade sky-jewelry, Moon and stars mounted in their settings. ⁴ Then I look at my micro-self and wonder, Why do you bother with us? Why take a second look our way? ⁵ Yet we've so narrowly missed being gods, bright with Eden's dawn light. ⁶ You put us in charge of your handcrafted world, repeated to us your Genesis-charge, ⁷ Made us lords of sheep and cattle, even animals out in the wild, ⁸ Birds flying and fish swimming, whales singing in the ocean deeps. ⁹ GOD, brilliant Lord, your name echoes around the world.