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Psalm 8: Domine, Dominus noster

Book of Common Prayer (1979), page 592. In the 30-day Psalter it is read on day 1, at Evening Prayer.

1

O LORD our Governor, *

how exalted is your Name in all the world!

2

Out of the mouths of infants and children *

your majesty is praised above the heavens.

3

You have set up a stronghold against your adversaries, *

to quell the enemy and the avenger.

4

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, *

the moon and the stars you have set in their courses,

5

What is man that you should be mindful of him? *

the son of man that you should seek him out?

6

You have made him but little lower than the angels; *

you adorn him with glory and honor;

7

You give him mastery over the works of your hands; *

you put all things under his feet:

8

All sheep and oxen, *

even the wild beasts of the field,

9

The birds of the air, the fish of the sea, *

and whatsoever walks in the paths of the sea.

10

O LORD our Governor, *

how exalted is your Name in all the world!

When it is appointed