{"slug": "how-excellent-in-all-the-earth", "title": "How Excellent in All the Earth", "first_line": "How excellent in all the earth", "author_source": "Scottish Psalter, 1650", "foot": "iambic", "meter": {"pattern": [8, 6, 8, 6], "doubled": false, "refrain": false, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "psalm": 8, "topics": ["Psalms"], "scripture": ["Psalm 8"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "scottish-psalter-1650", "source_kind": "open_encoding", "encoding_origin": "reformed-standards/compendium (cross-verified against thewestminsterstandard.org)", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "The Psalms of David in Metre (Scottish Psalter), 1650 \u2014 Psalm 8. Committee versification (Rous revision); all contributors d. before 1700. Imported by tools/psalter_import.py: transcription cross-verified word-for-word against an independent edition; every line machine-scanned to the metre.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "How ex -- cel -- lent in all the earth, Lord, our Lord, is thy name! Who hast thy glo -- ry far ad -- vanced a -- bove the star -- ry frame.", "prose": ["How excellent in all the earth,", "Lord, our Lord, is thy name!", "Who hast thy glory far advanced", "above the starry frame."]}, "2": {"syllabified": "From in -- fants' and from suck -- lings' mouth thou did -- est strength or -- dain, For thy foes' cause, that so thou might'st th'a -- veng -- ing foe re -- strain.", "prose": ["From infants' and from sucklings' mouth", "thou didest strength ordain,", "For thy foes' cause, that so thou might'st", "th' avenging foe restrain."]}, "3": {"syllabified": "When I look up un -- to the heav'ns, which thine own fin -- gers framed, Un -- to the moon, and to the stars, which were by thee or -- dained;", "prose": ["When I look up unto the heav'ns,", "which thine own fingers framed,", "Unto the moon, and to the stars,", "which were by thee ordained;"]}, "4": {"syllabified": "Then say I, What is man, that he re -- mem -- bered is by thee? Or what the son of man, that thou so kind to him should'st be?", "prose": ["Then say I, What is man, that he", "remembered is by thee?", "Or what the son of man, that thou", "so kind to him should'st be?"]}, "5": {"syllabified": "For thou a lit -- tle low -- er hast him than the an -- gels made; With glo -- ry and with dig -- ni -- ty thou crown -- ed hast his head.", "prose": ["For thou a little lower hast", "him than the angels made;", "With glory and with dignity", "thou crowned hast his head."]}, "6": {"syllabified": "Of thy hands' works thou mad'st him lord, all un -- der's feet didst lay; All sheep and ox -- en, yea, and beasts that in the field do stray;", "prose": ["Of thy hands' works thou mad'st him lord,", "all under 's feet didst lay;", "All sheep and oxen, yea, and beasts", "that in the field do stray;"]}, "7": {"syllabified": "Fowls of the air, fish of the sea, all that pass through the same. How ex -- cel -- lent in all the earth, Lord, our Lord, is thy name!", "prose": ["Fowls of the air, fish of the sea,", "all that pass through the same.", "How excellent in all the earth,", "Lord, our Lord, is thy name!"]}}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}