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Sunday, May 30, 2010

For the Beauty of the Earth (vid)


Sung by Paya Lebar Methodist Girls' School (Primary) choir. Written by Folliett Sanford Pierpoint in 1864. Originally published as a communion hymn in
"Lyra Eucharistica", as part of a collection of communion hymns.

Psalm 8

For the director of music. According to gittith [a].

A psalm of David.

1 O LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory
above the heavens.

2 From the lips of children and infants
you have ordained praise [b]
because of your enemies,
to silence the foe and the avenger.

3 When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,

4 what is man that you are mindful of him,
the son of man that you care for him?

5 You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings [c]
and crowned him with glory and honor.

6 You made him ruler over the works of your hands;
you put everything under his feet:

7 all flocks and herds,
and the beasts of the field,

8 the birds of the air,
and the fish of the sea,
all that swim the paths of the seas.

9 O LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!

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