Singing Psalm 8
For a number of years at Banstead Community Church we’ve committed to trying to sing a Psalm or a song based on a Psalm during our morning service. After all, Ephesians 5:19 tells us that we are to be “speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs.”
We’ve sung a couple of versions of Psalm 8:
O LORD, our Lord, in all the earth
To the tune of O for a Thousand Tongues (AZMON)
O LORD, our Lord, in all the earth
How glorious is Your name!
For You have set above the heav’ns
Your glory and Your fame.
From infants’ and from children’s lips
You ordered praise to sound
To silence all Your enemies,
The wicked to confound.
When I regard the heav’ns You made,
Your fingers’ work I trace;
I see the moon and shining stars
Which You have set in place.
I ask myself, “What then is man
That You should give him thought—
The son of man, that You to him
Such gracious care have brought?”
You made him ruler of the works
Created by Your hand;
You placed all things beneath his feet
To be in his command:
O Lord, our God, how excellent,
how glorious is Your name,
majestic in Your holiness;
we sing and praise Your fame!
Lord, our Lord, majestic is Your name throughout the whole wide earth
To the tune of Glorious things of thee are spoken (AUSTRIA)
Lord, our Lord, majestic is Your name throughout the whole wide earth;
You display and set Your splendor o’er the heav’ns which show Your worth.
From the mouths of infant children, You establish strength and praise.
Make the enemy and vengeful cease before Your wondrous ways.
When I see Your glorious heavens, moon and stars which You ordain;
What is man that You regard him, son of man with care maintain?
Yet You made him slightly lower than the angels high above;
Crowning him with glory, honor, just beneath the God of love.
You made him to rule creation, put all things beneath his feet—
Sheep and oxen, beasts and cattle, birds of heaven, fish of sea;
All that swim within the pathways of the sea declare Your worth.
Lord, our Lord, majestic is Your name throughout the whole wide earth.
[words Seedbed Psalter]