OLD TESTAMENT

Psalms 8:9

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LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

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Verse 9. Sea. All things are subjected to man’s dominion. Genesis 1:26 and 9:2. Calmet.—“The Stoics are in the right, who say that the world was made for us. For all its parts and productions are contrived for man’s benefit.” Lact. ira. xiii.

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