Psalm 8
Domine, Dominus noster
Joseph Corfe (1740-1820), from Henry Lawes (1596-1662)
O Lord our Governor,
How excellent is thy Name in all the world:
Thou that hast set thy glory above the heavens!
Out of the mouth of very babes and sucklings
Hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies; that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
For I will consider thy heavens even the works of thy fingers,
The moon and the stars which thou hast ordained.
What is man that thou art mindful of him,
And the son of man that thou visitest him?
Thou madest him lower than the angels,
To crown him with glory and worship.
Thou makest him to have dominion
Of the works of thy hands,
And thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet.
All sheep and oxen, yea and the beasts of the field;
The fowls of the air and the fishes of the sea,
And whatsoever walketh through the paths of the seas.
O Lord our Governor,
How excellent is thy Name in all the world!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
And to the Holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end. Amen.