Psalm 8 - Psalms of David in Metre 1650 (Scottish Psalter)

PSALM 8

A Psalm of David.

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;

⁸ Fowls 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!