As the work of the husbandman

The beauty of God's creation.

1 As the work of the husbandman is the ploughshare:

and the work of the steersman is the guidance of the ship:

2 So also my work is the Psalm of the Lord:

my craft and my occupation are in His praises:

[3 Because His love bath nourished my heart, and even to my lips His fruits He poured out.

4 For my love is the Lord, and therefore I will sing unto Him:

5 For I am made strong in His praise, and I have faith in Him.

6 I will open my mouth and His spirit will utter in me the glory of the Lord and His beauty;

the work of His hands and the operation of His fingers:

7 The multitude of His mercies and the strength of His word.

8 For the word of the Lord searches out all things,

both the invisible and that which reveals His thought;

9 For the eye sees His works, and the ear hears His thought;

10 He spread out the earth and He settled the waters in the sea:

11 He measured the heavens and fixed the stars:

and He established the creation and set it up:

12 And He rested from His works:

13 And created things run in their courses, and do their works:

14 And they know not how to stand and be idle;

and His heavenly hosts are subject to His word.

15 The treasure-chamber of the light is the sun,

and the treasury of the darkness is the night:

16 And He made the sun for the day that it may be bright,

but night brings darkness over the face of the land;

17 And their alternations one to the other speak the beauty of God:

IS And there is nothing that is without the Lord; for He was before any thing came into being:

19 And the worlds were made by His word, and by the thought of His heart.

Glory and honour to His name. Hallelujah.]