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You have taught children and babies to praise you.
You do that to show your enemies how strong you are.
    Anyone who turns against you has to be quiet.
    Your cruel enemies can do nothing!
You made the skies with your own hands.
When I look up, I see the moon and the stars.
    You have put them all in their right place.
So why do you even think about men and women?
    Why do you take care of humans?

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Through the praise of children and infants
    you have established a stronghold(A) against your enemies,
    to silence the foe(B) and the avenger.
When I consider your heavens,(C)
    the work of your fingers,(D)
the moon and the stars,(E)
    which you have set in place,
what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
    human beings that you care for them?[a](F)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 8:4 Or what is a human being that you are mindful of him, / a son of man that you care for him?