¹ O LORD, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth,

A  Who have set Your glory above the heavens!

B  ² Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength, because of Your enemies, that You may silence the enemy and the avenger.

C  ³ When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained,

D  ⁴ What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? ⁵ For You have made him a little lower than the angels,

A’  And You have crowned him with glory and honor.

B’  ⁶ You have made him to have dominion 

C  over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet, ⁷ all sheep and oxen—even the beasts of the field, ⁸ The birds of the air, and the fish of the sea that pass through the paths of the seas.

⁹ O LORD, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth!

The Thesis: The Excellence of our Lord.

A:  God is Glorious.

B:  God is Strong.

C: The Work of God’s Fingers.

D: THE CENTER: Who am I?

A’: I am Glorious, through Him.

B’: I have Dominion, through Him.

C’: The Works of God’s Hands are in My Care.  

The Thesis: The Excellence of our Lord.