1 O Lord our governor, ♦︎
how glorious is your name in all the world!
2 Your majesty above the heavens is praised ♦︎
out of the mouths of babes at the breast.
3 You have founded a stronghold against your foes, ♦︎
that you might still the enemy and the avenger.
4 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, ♦︎
the moon and the stars that you have ordained,
5 What is man, that you should be mindful of him; ♦︎
the son of man, that you should seek him out?
6 You have made him little lower than the angels ♦︎
and crown him with glory and honour.
7 You have given him dominion over the works of your hands ♦︎
and put all things under his feet,
8 All sheep and oxen, ♦︎
even the wild beasts of the field,
9 The birds of the air, the fish of the sea ♦︎
and whatsoever moves in the paths of the sea.
10 O Lord our governor, ♦︎
how glorious is your name in all the world!
1 Great is the Lord and highly to be praised, ♦︎
in the city of our God.
2 His holy mountain is fair and lifted high, ♦︎
the joy of all the earth.
3 On Mount Zion, the divine dwelling place, ♦︎
stands the city of the great king.
4 In her palaces God has shown himself ♦︎
to be a sure refuge.
5 For behold, the kings of the earth assembled ♦︎
and swept forward together.
6 They saw, and were dumbfounded; ♦︎
dismayed, they fled in terror.
7 Trembling seized them there;
they writhed like a woman in labour, ♦︎
as when the east wind shatters the ships of Tarshish.
8 As we had heard, so have we seen
in the city of the Lord of hosts, the city of our God: ♦︎
God has established her for ever.
9 We have waited on your loving-kindness, O God, ♦︎
in the midst of your temple.
10 As with your name, O God,
so your praise reaches to the ends of the earth; ♦︎
your right hand is full of justice.
11 Let Mount Zion rejoice and the daughters of Judah be glad, ♦︎
because of your judgements, O Lord.
12 Walk about Zion and go round about her;
count all her towers; ♦︎
consider well her bulwarks; pass through her citadels,
13 That you may tell those who come after
that such is our God for ever and ever. ♦︎
It is he that shall be our guide for evermore.