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Psalm 8 - 1st Version Psalm 8 WINCHESTER OLD  |  Same-Tune Hymns  |  Bible Passage Author: Scottish Psalter Musician: Based on Christopher Tye, 1553 In Este's Psalter, 1592   Play Music | MP3 • Click to listen to the music for this hymn. 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! OTHER HYMNS with the SAME TUNE: •   Psalm 89   · GOD'S mercies I will ever sing; And with my... •   While Shepherds Watched  Nahum Tate, 1652-1715 BIBLE PASSAGE: 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!