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You have given him rule over the works of your hands,(A)
    put all things at his feet:
All sheep and oxen,
    even the beasts of the field,
The birds of the air, the fish of the sea,
    and whatever swims the paths of the seas.

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all flocks and herds,(A)
    and the animals of the wild,(B)
the birds in the sky,
    and the fish in the sea,(C)
    all that swim the paths of the seas.

Lord, our Lord,
    how majestic is your name in all the earth!(D)

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He endowed them with strength like his own,
    and made them in his image.
He put fear of them in all flesh,
    and gave them dominion over beasts and birds.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 17:4

    Other ancient texts read as v. 5:

    They received the use of the Lord’s five faculties;

    of mind, the sixth, he granted them a share,

    as also of speech, the seventh, the interpreter of his actions.

'Sirach 17:3-4' not found for the version: New International Version.