Connor, thank you for making the metric Psalter available. It will be a part of my daily, personal worship.

Text: Scottish Psalter (1650)  Recorded at Free North, Inverness,  Free Church of Scotland (Meter: CM) Recording taken from: http://www.psalms.4t.com/page2.html

 1  I joyed when to the house of God,
       Go up, they said to me.
 2  Jerusalem, within thy gates
       our feet shall standing be.

 3  Jerus'lem, as a city, is
       compactly built together:
 4  Unto that place the tribes go up,
       the tribes of God go thither:

    To Isr'el's testimony, there
       to God's name thanks to pay.
 5  For thrones of judgment, ev'n the thrones
       of David's house, there stay.

 6  Pray that Jerusalem may have
       peace and felicity:
    Let them that love thee and thy peace
       have still prosperity.

 7  Therefore I wish that peace may still
       within thy walls remain,
    And ever may thy palaces
       prosperity retain.

 8  Now, for my friends' and brethren's sakes,
       Peace be in thee, I'll say.
 9  And for the house of God our Lord,
       I'll seek thy good alway.

Psalm 122 (Tune: Free Church)

Recording taken from: http://www.freechurchcontinuing.org/reports/news/fcc-news/item/worthy-to-be-praised-cd-volume-10.  Sung acapella from the 1650 Scottish Metrical Psalter. (Meter: CM)

 1  I love the Lord, because my voice
       and prayers he did hear.
 2  I, while I live, will call on him,
       who bowed to me his ear.

 3  Of death the cords and sorrows did
       about me compass round;
    The pains of hell took hold on me,
       I grief and trouble found.

 4  Upon the name of God the Lord
       then did I call, and say,
    Deliver thou my soul, O Lord,
       I do thee humbly pray.

 5  God merciful and righteous is,
       yea, gracious is our Lord.
 6  God saves the meek: I was brought low,
       he did me help afford.

 7  O thou my soul, do thou return
       unto thy quiet rest;
    For largely, lo, the Lord to thee
       his bounty hath expressed.

Psalm 116 v1-7  (Tune: St Columba)

From the Scottish psalter of 1650
Recording used by permission of the free Church of Scotland Psalmody committee

1  My heart is fixed, Lord; I will sing,
       and with my glory praise.
 2  Awake up psaltery and harp;
       myself I'll early raise.

 3  I'll praise thee 'mong the people, Lord;
       'mong nations sing will I:
 4  For above heav'n thy mercy's great,
       thy truth doth reach the sky.

 5  Be thou above the heavens, Lord,
       exalted gloriously;
    Thy glory all the earth above
       be lifted up on high.

 6  That those who thy beloved are
       deliver-ed may be,
    O do thou save with thy right hand,
       and answer give to me.


Psalm 108 (Tune: Warrick)

Text: Scottish Psalter (1650) Recorded at Dowanvale Free Church of Scotland (Meter: CM)

  3  His work most honourable is,
       most glorious and pure,
    And his untainted righteousness
       for ever doth endure.

 4  His works most wonderful he hath
       made to be thought upon:
    The Lord is gracious, and he is
       full of compassion.

Psalm 111 (Tune: St Stephen aka Abridge)

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57  Thou my sure portion art alone,
         which I did choose, O Lord:
     I have resolved, and said, that I
        would keep thy holy word.

 58  With my whole heart I did entreat
        thy face and favor free:
     According to thy gracious word
        be merciful to me.

 59  I thought upon my former ways,
        and did my life well try;
     And to thy testimonies pure
        my feet then turned I.

 60  I did not stay, nor linger long,
        as those that slothful are;
     But hastily thy laws to keep
        myself I did prepare.

 61  Bands of ill men me robbed; yet I
        thy precepts did not slight.
 62  I'll rise at midnight thee to praise,
        ev'n for thy judgments right.

 63  I am companion to all those
        who fear, and thee obey.
 64  O Lord, thy mercy fills the earth:
        teach me thy laws, I pray.

Text from the Scottish Metrical Psalter of 1650.

Psalm 119 Part 8 (Tune: Belmont)

1  Now Israel may say, and that truly,
    If that the Lord had not our cause maintained;
 2  If that the Lord had not our right sustained,
    When cruel men against us furiously
    Rose up in wrath, to make of us their prey;


 3  Then certainly they had devoured us all,
    And swallowed quick, for ought that we could deem;
    Such was their rage, as we might well esteem.
 4  And as fierce floods before them all things drown,
    So had they brought our soul to death quite down.


 5  The raging streams, with their proud swelling waves,
    Had then our soul o'erwhelmèd in the deep.
 6  But blessed be God, who doth us safely keep,
    And hath not giv'n us for a living prey
    Unto their teeth, and bloody cruelty.


 7  Ev'n as a bird out of the fowler's snare
    Escapes away, so is our soul set free:
    Broke are their nets, and thus escapèd we.
 8  Therefore our help is in the Lord's great name,
    Who heav'n and earth by his great pow'r did frame.

Psalm 124 (Tune: Old 124th)

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Psalm 119 from the Scottish Psalter of 1650. Recorded at Glasgow RP Church, 2018.

52  Thy judgments righteous, O Lord,
        which thou of old forth gave,
     I did remember, and myself
        by them comforted have.

 53  Horror took hold on me, because
        ill men thy law forsake.
 54  I in my house of pilgrimage
        thy laws my songs do make.

 55  Thy name by night, Lord, I did mind,
        and I have kept thy law.
 56  And this I had, because thy word
        I kept, and stood in awe.

Psalm 119 Part 7 (Tune: St Andrew)

Text: Scottish Psalter (1650)  (Meter: CM)

Part Vau

 41  Let thy sweet mercies also come
        and visit me, O Lord;
     Ev'n thy benign salvation,
        according to thy word.

 42  So shall I have wherewith I may
        give him an answer just,
     Who spitefully reproacheth me;
        for in thy word I trust.

 43  The word of truth out of my mouth
        take thou not utterly;
     For on thy judgments righteous
        my hope doth still rely.

 44  So shall I keep for evermore
        thy law continually.
 45  And, sith that I thy precepts seek,
        I'll walk at liberty.

Psalm 119 Part 6 (Tune: St Agnes)

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Psalm 115 sung acapella from the Scottish Metrical Psalter of 1650. Used with permission of the Northern Presbytery Choir. (Meter: CM)

12  The Lord of us hath mindful been,
       and he will bless us still:
    He will the house of Isr'el bless,
       bless Aaron's house he will.

13  Both small and great, that fear the Lord,
       he will them surely bless.
14  The Lord will you, you and your seed,
       aye more and more increase.

15  O bless-ed are ye of the Lord,
       who made the earth and heav'n.
16  The heav'n, ev'n heav'ns, are God's, but he
       earth to men's sons hath giv'n.

17  The dead, nor who to silence go,
       God's praise do not record.
18  But henceforth we for ever will
       bless God. Praise ye the Lord.

Psalm 115 (Tune: Warwick)

Recorded @ Arbroath Youth Weekend Febuary 2013
1650 scottish psalter

  2  Bless, O my soul, the Lord thy God,
        and not forgetful be
     Of all his gracious benefits
        he hath bestowed on thee.

  3  All thine iniquities who doth
        most graciously forgive:
     Who thy diseases all and pains
        doth heal, and thee relieve.

  4  Who doth redeem thy life, that thou
        to death may'st not go down;
     Who thee with loving-kindness doth
        and tender mercies crown:

  5  Who with abundance of good things
        doth satisfy thy mouth;
     So that, ev'n as the eagle's age,
        renewed is thy youth.

Psalm 103 v1-5 (Tune: New London)

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38  Confirm to me thy gracious word,
        which I did gladly hear,
     Ev'n to thy servant, Lord, who is
        devoted to thy fear.

 39  Turn thou away my fear'd reproach;
        for good thy judgments be.
 40  Lo, for thy precepts I have long'd;
        in thy truth quicken me.

Psalm 119 (Part 5) v38-40 sung acapella from The Scottish Psalter of 1650
Recorded at Glasgow Reformed Presbyterian Church.

Psalm 119 Part 5 v38-40 (Tune: Land of Rest)

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