How excellent in all the earth

Verse 1

How excellent in all the earth, Lord, our Lord, is thy name! Who hast thy glory far advanced above the starry frame.

Verse 2

From infants' and from sucklings' mouth thou didest strength ordain, For thy foes' cause, that so thou might'st th' avenging foe restrain.

Verse 3

When I look up unto the heav'ns, which thine own fingers framed, Unto the moon, and to the stars, which were by thee ordained;

Verse 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?

Verse 5

For thou a little lower hast him than the angels made; With glory and with dignity thou crownèd hast his head.

Verse 6

Of thy hands' works thou mad'st him lord, all under's feet didst lay;

Verse 7

All sheep and oxen, yea, and beasts that in the field do stray;

Verse 8

Fowls of the air, fish of the sea, all that pass through the same.

Verse 9

How excellent in all the earth, Lord, our Lord, is thy name!