Psalm 8

Common Metre (8,6,8,6)

Suggested Tunes: 148 Winchester, 65 Gainsborough, 103 Richmond

1    How excellent in all the earth,

            Lord, our Lord, is thy name!

      Who hast thy glory far advanc’d

            above the starry frame.

2    From infants’ and from sucklings’ mouth

            thou didest strength ordain,

      For thy foes’ cause, that so thou might’st

            th’ avenging foe restrain.

3    When I look up unto the heav’ns,

            which thine own fingers fram’d,

      Unto the moon, and to the stars,

            which were by thee ordain’d;

4    Then say I, What is man, that he

            remember’d is by thee?

      Or what the son of man, that thou

            so kind to him should’st be?

5    For thou a little lower hast

            him than the angels made;

      With glory and with dignity

            thou crowned hast his head.

6    Of thy hands’ works thou mad’st him lord,

            all under’s feet didst lay;

7    All sheep and oxen, yea, and beasts

            that in the field do stray;

9    Fowls of the air, fish of the sea,

            all that pass through the same.

      How excellent in all the earth,

            Lord, our Lord, is thy name!