Psalm 8

Setting

In all the earth, O LORD our Lord,

Free Church of Scotland psalter · C.M.

The words

In all the earth, O LORD our Lord, how glorious is your name! For you have set above the heavens 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 heavens 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 little less than those who dwell in heaven above, And you have crowned and honoured him with glory and with love.

You gave him charge of all the works created by your hand, And everything that you had made you gave him to command—

All flocks and herds, and birds and fish, all beasts both wild and tame. In all the earth, O LORD our Lord, how glorious is your name!

Source & provenance

Free Church of Scotland psalter · psalter

An unedited transcription of the Sing Psalms (Free Church of Scotland, 2003) edition.

Full provenance & rights
Base edition
Sing Psalms (Free Church of Scotland, 2003)
Editor
Psalmody Committee of the Free Church of Scotland
Editing
unedited transcription

Rights

Copyright
rights-verified (display held); FCS terms recorded 2026-10-08 — verbatim text in a notated setting with independent tune MIDI is within terms (text free, FCS attribution displayed); copy/print/offline not granted; no audio derivatives
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Tunes it can be sung to

3 tunes

  • Richmond

    curated well-matched

    CM

  • Sennen Cove

    curated well-matched

    CM

  • Winchester

    curated well-matched

    CM

How is this list ordered?

Curated pairings come first — a tune a curator recorded against this text, with the fitness they recorded. A tune that merely shares the meter is listed as a tune in the same meter and never as a pairing.

Nothing here is ranked by popularity or use. The page reports what a curator recorded, not a verdict of its own.