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| Text: | How excellent in all the earth |
| Tune: | WINCHESTER OLD |
| Adapter: | Gordon J. Munro (b. 1972) |
1 How excellent in all the earth,
Lord, our Lord, is thy name!
who hast thy glory far advanced
above the starry frame.
2 When I look up unto the heavens,
which thine own fingers framed,
unto the moon, and to the stars,
which were by thee ordained;
3 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?
4 For thou a little lower hast
him than the angels made;
With glory and with dignity
thou crownèd hast his head.
| Text Information | |
|---|---|
| First Line: | How excellent in all the earth |
| Meter: | CM |
| Language: | English |
| Publication Date: | 2005 |
| Scripture: | |
| Topic: | Adoration: Of God; Angels; v |
| Source: | Psalm 8, verses 1, 3-5 The Scottish Psalter, 1929 |
| Tune Information | |
|---|---|
| Name: | WINCHESTER OLD |
| Adapter: | Gordon J. Munro (b. 1972) |
| Meter: | CM |
| Key: | F Major |
| Source: | Melody from Este's Psalter 1592 as arranged in Scottish Psalter, 1635 |
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