_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ "It is not in the heavens, that you should say, "Who among us can go up to the heavens and get it for us and impart it to us, that we may observe it?" (...) No, the thing is very close to you, in your mouth and in your heart, to observe it". Deuteronomy
20 de maio de 2015
For the lead player, on the gittith, a David psalm.
LORD, our Master,
how majestic Your name in all the earth!
Whose splendor was told over the heavens.
From the mouth of babes and sucklings
You founded strenght
on account of Your foes
to put an end to enemy and avenger.
When I see Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
the moon and the stars You fixed firm,
"What is man that You should note him,
and the human creature, that You pay him heed,
and You make him little less than the gods,
with glory and grandeur You crown him?
You make him rule over the work of Your hands.
All things You set under his feet.
Sheep and oxen all together,
and also the beasts of the field,
birds of the heavens and fish of the sea,
what moves on the paths of the seas."
LORD, our Master,
how majestic Your name in all the earth!
Psalm 8
(Robert Alter)