The Word of God.

¹O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.#

²Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.#

³When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;#

⁴What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?#

⁵For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.#

⁶Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:#

⁷All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;#

⁸The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.#

⁹O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!#