Psalm 8 - KJV and Scottish Metrical Psalter

 Psalm 8

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!

 

1 How excellent in all the earth,
Lord, our Lord, is thy name!
Who hast thy glory far advanc'd
above the starry frame.
2 From infants' and from sucklings' mouth
thou didest strength ordain,
For thy foes' cause, that so thou might'st
th' avenging foe restrain.
3 When I look up unto the heav'ns,
which thine own fingers fram'd,
Unto the moon, and to the stars,
which were by thee ordain'd;
4 Then say I, What is man, that he
remember'd 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 mad'st him lord,
all under's feet didst lay;
7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and beasts
that in the field do stray;
8 Fowls 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!