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Psalm Eight
Оглавление1 O God, our Lord, How excellent is thy name in all the earth,Who hast set thy glory upon the heavens!2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings Hast thou established strength,Because of thine adversaries,That thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him?And the son of man, that thou visitest him?5 For thou hast made him but little lower than God,And crownest him with glory and honor.6 Thou makest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands;Thou hast put all things under his feet:7 All sheep and oxen,Yea, and the beasts of the field,8 The birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,Whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.9 O God, our Lord,How excellent is thy name in all the earth!
Lord, Lord
How majestic your name in all the earth!
Lord, how impossible a term
For anyone who’s labored under lords
And examined the experience
Nothing could be more human and more corrupt
Than what passes for nobility
Do you truly want praise?
And worship?
Why is that?
Would you not rather we be
The beings you have made?
Something does not add up here
When we consider your heavens
The work of your hands
The moon and the stars
The Milky Way
Trillions of stars they say
Nothing compares to our DNA
Yet we are incomplete
Damaged masterworks
What exactly did you have in mind?
What is the end game here?
We used to be told
You made us rulers of the earth
Everything under our feet:
All flocks and herds,
The animals of the wild,
Cheetahs, aardvarks, ostriches, bears
Red tailed hawks, eagles, deer Spiny lobsters, soft shelled crabs,
Great white sharks, king cobras, cod of course
Burmese pythons,
Maine coon cats, meow
Surely these majestic beings were not meant to lie
Beneath our feet,
Surely we can marvel
At the grandeur of creation
Without needing to control the animals
As we control ourselves.
