"How Majestic is Your Name in All the Earth!!"

Having grown up in the church, and particularly the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, I am very familiar with most of the hymns in the Trinity Hymnal as well as the Psalms through the Psalter. I have been singing these tunes and lyrics for many years, and have many memories accompanying them. For example, I have fond memories of singing a song based on Psalm 8 with my grandparents and siblings when I was a little girl of four and five, before my grandfather passed away. Now, whenever I read or hear Psalm 8, the song runs through my head. As a result of these memories and of the words themselves, Psalm 8 has become a favorite psalm of mine, and this morning, I thought I would share it with you.

¹O LORD, our Lord,

how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory above the heavens.

² Out of the mouth of babies and infants,

you have established strength because of your foes,

to still the enemy and the avenger.

³When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,

the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

⁴ what is man that you are mindful of him,

and the son of man that you care for him?

⁵Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings

and crowned him with glory and honor.

⁶You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;

you have put all things under his feet,

⁷all sheep and oxen,

and also the beasts of the field,

⁸the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,

whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

⁹O LORD, our Lord,

how majestic is your name in all the earth!