Isaac Watts Psalm 8

Psalms "Imitated in the Language of the New Testament"

Psalm 8

Words: Isaac Watts


 * 1 O Lord, our Lord, how wondrous great
 * Is thine exalted name!
 * The glories of thy heav'nly state
 * Let men and babes proclaim.


 * 2 When I behold thy works on high
 * The moon that rules the night,
 * And stars that well adorn the sky,
 * Those moving worlds of light.


 * 3 Lord, what is man, or all his race,
 * Who dwells so far below,
 * That thou should visit him with grace,
 * And love his nature so?


 * 4 That thine eternal Son should bear
 * To take a mortal form;
 * Made lower than His angels are,
 * To save a dying worm?


 * 5 Yet while He lived on earth unknown,
 * And men would not adore,
 * The obedient seas and fishes own
 * His Godhead and his power.


 * 6 The waves lay spread beneath His feat;
 * And fish, at his command,
 * Bring their large shoals to Peter's net,
 * Bring tribute to his hand.


 * 7 Those lesser glories of the son
 * Shone through the fleshly cloud;
 * Now, we behold Him on His throne,
 * And men confess Him God.


 * 8 Let Him be crowned with majesty,
 * Who bowed His head to death;
 * And be His honors sounded high,
 * By all things that have breath.


 * 9 Jesus, our Lord, how wondrous great
 * Is thine exalted name!
 * The glories of thy heavenly state
 * Let the whole earth proclaim.