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Psalm 8 - 1st Version
WINCHESTER OLD | Common Meter (8,6,8,6)
Scottish Psalter
Based on Christopher Tye, 1553
In Este's Psalter, 1592
Psalm 8
1 ¶ O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
3 ¶ When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
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1 HOW excellent in all the earth,
Lord, our Lord, is thy name!
Who hast thy glory far advanced
Above the starry frame.
2 From infants' and from sucklings' mouth
Thou power didst ordain,
Because of foes, that so thou might'st
The vengeful foe restrain.
3 When I look up unto thy heavens,
Which thine own fingers framed,
Unto the moon and to the stars,
Which were by thee ordained;
4 Then say I, What is man, that he
Remembered 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 madest him lord;
All 'neath his feet didst lay,
7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and beasts
That in the field do stray;
8 Fowl of the air, fish of the sea,
All that pass through the same.
9 How excellent in all the earth,
Lord, our Lord, is thy name!