How Excellent is Your Name

1 O LORD, our Lord, in all the earth how excellent is your name! Your glory you have spread afar in all the starry frame. 2 From lips of children, you, O Lord have mighty strength ordained, that adversaries should be stilled and vengeful foes restrained. 3 The heavens shout your handiwork; we stand beneath in awe, 4 to think the One who made all things should care for us at all. 5 You made us little less than those who dwell in heaven above, and you have crowned and honored us with glory and with love. 6 You gave us charge of all the works created by your hand, and everything that you had made you gave us to command: 7,8 All flocks and herds, and birds and fish, all beasts both wild and tame. 9 In all the earth, O LORD our Lord, how glorious is your name! – vv. 1-3 Psalter, 1912, alt; v. 4 Fred R. Anderson; vv. 5-9 Sing Psalms, alt.