an incredible canticle

This is an incredible canticle of praise.

Here's is a vid of a choir anthem that does amazing justice the beauty of this psalm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_f0aOp0EPE

During the many years I was a church musician, the choirs I directed sang it many, many times.

I think it may be one of the best choir anthems of the 20^th century.

Psalm 8

1 O LORD, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth!

  Your glory is higher than the heavens.

2 You have taught children and infants

  to tell of your strength,*

silencing your enemies

  and all who oppose you.

3 When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers—

  the moon and the stars you set in place—

4 what are mere mortals that you should think about them,

  human beings that you should care for them?*

5 Yet you made them only a little lower than God*

  and crowned them* with glory and honor.

6 You gave them charge of everything you made,

  putting all things under their authority—

7 the flocks and the herds

  and all the wild animals,

8 the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea,

  and everything that swims the ocean currents.

9 O LORD, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth!