- 1 O God our Lord how wonderful,
- are thy works everywhere?
- Whose fame surmounts in dignity,
- above the heavens clear.
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- 2 Even by the mouths of sucking babes,
- thou wilt confound thy foes:
- For in these babes thy might is seen,
- thy graces they disclose.
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- 3 And when I see the heavens high
- the works of thine own hand:
- The Sun, the Moon, and all the Stars,
- in order as they stand.
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- 4 What thing is man, Lord, think I then
- that thou dost him remember?
- Or what is man’s posterity,
- that thou dost him consider?
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- 5 For thou hast made him little less
- than Angels in degree:
- And thou hast crowned him also
- with glory and dignity.
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- 6 Thou hast preferred him to be Lord
- of all thy works of wonder:
- And at his feet hast set all things,
- that he should keep them under.
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- 7 As sheep, and neat, and all beasts else
- that in the fields do feed:
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- 8 Fowls of the air, fish of the sea,
- and all that therein breed.
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- 9 Therefore must I say once again,
- O God that art our Lord:
- How famous and how wonderful,
- are thy works through the world!
