O Thou, to Whom All Creatures Bow

O Thou, to Whom all creatures bow
Within this earthly frame,
Thro’ all the world, how great art Thou!
How glorious is Thy Name!

When Heav’n, Thy beauteous work on high,
Employs my wondering sight;
The moon that nightly rules the sky,
With stars of feebler light;

Lord, what is man, that Thou shouldst deign
To bear him in Thy mind!
Or what his race, that Thou shouldst prove
To them so wondrous kind!

O Thou, to Whom all creatures bow
Within this earthly frame,
Thro’ all the world, how great art Thou!
How glorious is Thy Name!

Author: Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady

Year: 1696

This is a metrical paraphrase of Psalm 8 from the New Version of the Psalms of David (Tate & Brady, 1696). The text matches their rendering, though later hymnals sometimes attribute individual stanzas or the whole to other editors; the core authorship is Tate and Brady.