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O Lord, our Lord, how excellent Thy name in all the earth! Let every people, tribe, and tongue Proclaim its boundless worth. Out of the mouth of little ones Thou hast established praise, That Thou may still Thine enemy And swiftly end his days. |
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When we the universe behold, The work of Thy great hand— The moon and stars which Thou ordained By lofty wisdom planned; O what is man that Thou should’st care That Thou should’st mindful be? The son of man Thou visitest In Thine economy. |
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O Jesus Lord, Thou art that man, The One who joined our race, Who put upon Himself the flesh And took a lower place. But now with glory Thou art crowned, With sovereignty complete. Now through Thy Body Thou dost rule With all beneath Thy feet. |
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Thine incarnation, rising too, And Thy transcendency, Thy Lordship, Headship, kingdom full, And Body here we see. By all these steps of work divine Thou hast established praise. With overflowing hearts to Thee Our joyful voice we raise. |
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Oh, soon that blessed day shall come— All tongues these words shall peal! But in the local churches now We have a foretaste real. O Lord, our Lord, how excellent Thy name in all the earth! Let every people, tribe, and tongue Proclaim its boundless worth. |
[Psalm 8] Verse 3 says, "When I see Your heavens, the works of Your fingers,/The moon and the stars, which You have ordained." David did not say that he saw the heavens, but he saw "Your heavens." We have a hymn on this psalm in our hymnal (Hymns, #1097). In the second stanza of that hymn, the writer referred to the sun, the moon, and the stars. The writer added the word sun, but this is wrong. In Psalm 8 David saw only the moon and the stars, not the sun. We cannot see the sun, the moon, and the stars at the same time. When we see the moon and the stars, we cannot see the sun.
The moon and the stars in Psalm 8 indicate that it was in the night. In the nighttime, everything is dark. But the psalmist lifted up his eyes to look at our Father's heavens. In the night he saw the moon and the stars which God had ordained. The scientific experts can bear witness to this ordination. The divine ordination of the moon and the stars is truly a wonder.
After the psalmist turned his view from the messy earth to the bright heavens, he said, "What is man, that You remember him,/And the son of man, that You visit him?" (v. 4). He turned his view from the moon and the stars in the heavens back to man on this earth. First, God remembers man. Second, He visits man. We have to understand this in a poetic way. God in the heavens remembered man before He became incarnated. Then He came to visit man by becoming a man through His incarnation. The Triune God came to visit us. Before coming to us, He remembered us. The Triune God was very busy, yet He remembered us. Then according to His remembrance of us, He became incarnated to visit us.
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Delhi, India
Oh, soon that blessed day shall come—
All tongues these words shall peal!
But in the local churches now
We have a foretaste real.
O Lord, our Lord, how excellent
Thy name in all the earth!
Let every people, tribe, and tongue
Proclaim its boundless worth. Amen Lord.
Pflugerville, Texas, United States
*2) When we the universe behold,
The work of Thy great hand—
The sun, the moon and all the stars
By lofty wisdom planned;
O what is man that Thou should’st care
That Thou should’st mindful be?
The son of man Thou visitest
In Thine economy.
Shoreline, WA, United States
Amazing song!! So yummmy and outstanding! Amen! 🥰🥰😀
Irvine, CA, United States
I'm here in Irvine singing this hymn with seven brothers in Christ!
"O Lord, our Lord, how excellent
Thy name in all the earth!
Let every people, tribe, and tongue
Proclaim its boundless worth."
Burlingame, California, United States
Oh Lord how excellent! Thy name in all the earth!
Cali, Valle Del Cauca, Colombia
Ho Lord O Lord Jesus
We love you proclaimed it's boundless worth!
Tustin, California, United States
O Jehovah our Lord, How excellent is Your name In all the earth, You who have set Your glory over the heavens! (Psalms 8:1)
Auckland, New Zealand
Out of the mouth of Little ones
Thou hast established praise,
That Thou may still Thine enemy
And swift end his day.
Above the heavens is God’s splendor, and on the earth is the excellent name of Jesus; but between the earth and heavens are the adversary, the enemy, and the avenger. The Lord stops these three categories of negative ones by establishing strength and perfecting praise out of the mouths of babes and sucklings, the youngest, smallest, and weakest ones. ( from recovery version Bible Ps 8: 2 footnote 3)
Lord establish and perfect our praise to still Your enemy and end his days.
Auckland, New Zealand
Oh Lord, our Lord, how excellent Your name in all the earth!!
while we consider all the steps of work divine, how we marvel at Your lofty wisdom and glorious economy!!! our hearts just overflow praises to You.
Auckland, New Zealand
O Jesus Lord, Thou art that man,
The One who joined our race,
Who put upon Himself the flesh
And took a lower place.
What a great mystery that God become a man Jesus!