Verse 1
Sovereign, everlasting Lord,
How excellent thy name!
Held in being by thy word,
Thee all thy works proclaim:
Thro’ this earth thy glories shine,
Thro’ those dazling worlds above,
All confess the source divine,
Th’ Almighty God of love.

Verse 2
Thou, the God of power and grace
Whom highest heavens adore,
Callest babes to sing thy praise,
And manifest thy power:
Lo! They in thy strength go on,
Lo! On all thy foes they tread,
Cast the dire accuser down,
And bruise the serpent’s head.

Verse 3
Yet when I survey the skies
And planets as they roll,
Wonder dims my aching eyes,
And swallows up my soul;
Moon and stars so wide display,
Chaunt their Maker’s praise so loud,
Pour insufferable day,
And draw me up to God!

Verse 4
What is man, that thou, O Lord,
Hast such respect to him!
Comes from heaven th’ incarnate Word,
His creature to redeem:
Wherefore would’st thou stoop so low?
Who the mystery shall explain?
God is flesh, and lives below,
And dies for wretched man.

Verse 5
Jesus, his Redeemer dies,
The sinner to restore,
Falls that man again may rise,
And stand as heretofore;
Foremost of created things,
Head of all thy works he stood,
Nearest the great King of kings,
And little less than God![1]

Verse 6
Him with glorious majesty
Thy grace vouchsaf’d to crown,
Transcript of the One in Three,
He in thine image shone:
All thy works for him were made,
All did to his sway submit,
Fishes, birds, and beasts obey’d,
And bow’d beneath his feet.

Verse 7
Sovereign, everlasting Lord,
How excellent thy name,
Held in being by thy word
Thee all thy works proclaim:
Thro’ this earth thy glories shine,
Thro’ those dazling worlds above,
All confess the source divine,
Th’ Almighty God of love.

[1] Wesley added a footnote here: “So is it in the Hebrew”