8:1 For the music director, according to the gittith style; ²  a psalm of David.

O Lord, our Lord, ³ 

how magnificent ⁴  is your reputation ⁵  throughout the earth!

You reveal your majesty in the heavens above! ⁶ 

8:2 From the mouths of children and nursing babies

you have ordained praise on account of your adversaries, ⁷ 

so that you might put an end to the vindictive enemy. ⁸ 

8:3 When I look up at the heavens, which your fingers made,

and see the moon and the stars, which you set in place, ⁹ 

8:4 Of what importance is the human race, ¹⁰  that you should notice ¹¹  them?

Of what importance is mankind, ¹²  that you should pay attention to them, ¹³ 

8:5 and make them a little less than the heavenly beings? ¹⁴ 

You grant mankind ¹⁵  honor and majesty; ¹⁶ 

8:6 you appoint them to rule over your creation; ¹⁷ 

you have placed ¹⁸  everything under their authority, ¹⁹ 

8:7 including all the sheep and cattle,

as well as the wild animals, ²⁰ 

8:8 the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea

and everything that moves through the currents ²¹  of the seas.

8:9 O Lord, our Lord, ²² 

how magnificent ²³  is your reputation ²⁴  throughout the earth! ²⁵ 

19:1 The two angels came to Sodom in the evening while ¹  Lot was sitting in the city’s gateway. ²  When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face toward the ground.

19:2 He said, “Here, my lords, please turn aside to your servant’s house. Stay the night ³  and wash your feet. Then you can be on your way early in the morning.” ⁴  “No,” they replied, “we’ll spend the night in the town square.” ⁵ 

19:3 But he urged ⁶  them persistently, so they turned aside with him and entered his house. He prepared a feast for them, including bread baked without yeast, and they ate. 19:4 Before they could lie down to sleep, ⁷  all the men – both young and old, from every part of the city of Sodom – surrounded the house. ⁸  19:5 They shouted to Lot, ⁹  “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so we can have sex ¹⁰  with them!”

19:6 Lot went outside to them, shutting the door behind him.