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Psalm 8

Creator, our Guardian,
Your name is revered in all the earth.
You have established your majesty in the heavens.

You establish your strength
in the newly born and the nursing child.
Your glory shines through them

to silence your adversaries;
this glory stills any impulses of self-deceit …

Yes, I see your heavens, the work of your fingers

the moon and the stars which you have established
and I think, what are mortals that you remember us?
Who are our children that you are mindful of them?

You have not withheld your divine breath from us,
you offer us dignity and greatness.

You call us to be your partners in caring for Creation;
the work of your hands spreads out before us:
sheep and oxen, all the creatures of the fields,

birds soaring in the heavens,
fish in the sea, traversing the paths of the oceans!

Creator, Eternal Guardian,
we revere your name throughout the earth!