The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook ‎#P8b

P8b. How excellent in all the earth

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!

Text Information

• First Line: How excellent in all the earth
• Meter: CM
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2004
• Scripture:
  Psalm 8

Tune Information

• Name: CASTLEFORD
• Composer: Samuel Sebastian Wesley, 1810-1876 (arr.)
• Meter: CM
• Key: E Major