How Excellent In All the Earth
Words: Psalm 8, adapted from "The Book of Psalms," 1920
and "The Scottish Metrical Psalms and Paraphrases," 1907
Music: Mark Graham
Music:
1. How excellent in all the earth,
Eternal is thy name!
Who hast thy glory far advanced
above the starry frame.
From mouths of infants and of babes
Thou hast a strength ordained,
That adversaries should be stilled
and vengeful foes restrained.
2. 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;
Than say I, What is man, that he
remembered is by Thee,
Or what the son of man, that Thou
so kind to him should be?
3. For man a little lower than
the angels hast Thou made;
And placed a crown of glory and
of honor on his head.
Appointed lord of all thy works;
beneath him all things be,
All flocks and herds, all beasts and birds,
all fishes of the sea.
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Words and music © 1996, Mark Graham
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