PSALM 8
METER: 84 84 88 84
SUGGESTED TUNE: AR HYD Y NOS
This is the meter of the hymn "God, Who Madest Earth and Heaven" or the song "All Through the Night"
1. Lord, your name is so ma-jes-tic
In all the earth.
Babes and child-ren sing your prais-es,
Reach-ing to heav'n.
You have built a might-y fort-ress,
A safe ha-ven from all ri-vals.
You stop all those who op-pose you,
All en-e-mies.
2. When I look up at the hea-vens
Which you have made.
At the moon and stars which you have
Set in-to place--
What are we, that you think of us;
Hu-mans, that you care so for us?
Yet you have made us in-fer-ior
On-ly to you.
3. With your glo-ry and your hon-or
You have crowned us.
O-ver all your great cre-a-tion
You give us rule.
Sheep and cat-tle, and all wild things,
Birds and fish, and all sea crea-tures.
Lord, your name is so ma-jes-tic
In all the earth.
Reprinted by permission of the publisher from Sing the Psalms! by Dale A. Schoening. Copyright 1988 Dale A. Schoening. Alt. 2004 DAS
