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1. 

Quão grande o amor do Pai por nós,

Tão vasto e sem medida

Pra dar Seu Filho em meu lugar

Ao pecador, a Vida.

Quão grande a dor da perda ali,

O Pai virou sua face

As marcas, em Seu filho, são,

A glória que, em mim, nasce


2.

Perceba o Homem numa cruz,

Meu pecado em seus ombros

Envergonhado eu ouço a mim,

Escarnecer, zombando

O meu pecado o segurou

Na cruz até a consumação

Seu último suspiro foi

A porta da minha redenção


3. 

Eu não me orgulharei então

Nas coisas deste mundo

Me orgulharei no meu Jesus

Na morte e na ressurreição

Que bem eu fiz pra merecer?

Resposta não posso lhe dar

Mas em meu coração eu sei

Minha dívida foi paga.

Tradução: Matheus Santos / Débora Lidório

Autor: Stuart Townend  (versão original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IQUXJ_H16Y
How Deep The Father's Love For Us)

Reformed Hymns

Psalms

Quão profundo o amor do Pai por nós

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Recorded at RP International Conference 2012
Tune: Katushka - Traditional Russian melody
From The Book of Psalms for Worship. Used by permission of Crown & Covenant Publications.

Psalm 38 B (Tune: Katushka)

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Recorded by New Song choir: www.geneva.edu/object/new_song

I lift my prayer lord trusting thy mercy
keep me from shame lord, save me from foes
all those who trust me, shame shall not touch them
only transgressors punished shall be.

show my thy ways lord make me to know them
lead me in truth lord my teacher be
for thou are god that sendeth salvation
i wait upon thee expectantly

thy tender mercies do thou remember
and loving kindness from long ago
forgive my sins lord, my youthful errors
in all thy goodness remember me

Psalm 25 (Tune: Bunessan / Morning Has Broken)

13.  Lord, our Lord, Thy glorious Name (Psalm 8)
From the blue 1959/1976 (blue) CRC Psalter Hymnal
Tune: EVENING PRAISE 7.7.7.7.4.REF. (William F. Sherwin, 1877)
Text: Adapted from the 1912 United Presbyterian Psalter

Organ: Möller Opus 11158 (1977), 2 manuals, 8 ranks
John White Chapel, Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania
Michael Kearney, organist 
Recorded January 30, 2014

13.  Lord, our Lord, Thy glorious Name (Psalm 8)

Sung by Tim McCracken
Used with permissions

Psalm 6  (Acapella | Sung by Pastor Tim McCracken)

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My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
    Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?
2 O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer,
    and by night, but I find no rest.
3 Yet you are holy,
    enthroned on the praises[a] of Israel.
4 In you our fathers trusted;
    they trusted, and you delivered them.
5 To you they cried and were rescued;
    in you they trusted and were not put to shame.
6 But I am a worm and not a man,
    scorned by mankind and despised by the people.
7 All who see me mock me;
    they make mouths at me; they wag their heads;
8 “He trusts in the Lord; let him deliver him;
    let him rescue him, for he delights in him!”
Lord deliver me!

Psalm 22 (in Hebrew)

Text: Scottish Psalter of 1650 & 'The Psalms For Singing - 21stCentury Edition' From the 'Worthy to be Praised'  series of Psalmody CDs: http://sing-the-psalms.webs.com/ 
*I sang on this particular recording

 1  Lord, from the depths to thee I cried.
 2     My voice, Lord, do thou hear:
    Unto my supplication's voice
       give an attentive ear.

 3  Lord, who shall stand, if thou, O Lord,
       should'st mark iniquity?
 4  But yet with thee forgiveness is,
       that feared thou mayest be.

 5  I wait for God, my soul doth wait,
       my hope is in his word.
 6  More than they that for morning watch,
       my soul waits for the Lord;

    I say, more than they that do watch
       the morning light to see.
 7  Let Israel hope in the Lord,
       for with him mercies be;

    And plenteous redemption
       is ever found with him.
 8  And from all his iniquities
       he Isr'el shall redeem.

Psalm 130 (Tune: Caroline)

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Singers: Ongi- zyan-i
Recorded by the Japan Presbytery of the RPC.
Tune: Sandon - Charles H. Purday	(1860)

Psalm 121 (Tune: Sandon) (In Japanese)

Psalm 148 (Tune: Kirkpatrick)

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Setting by Claude Goudimel (1542)
Meter: 666. 666. 667. 667
Owens/Jackson vocals,

Psalm 19 (Genevan Psalter)

Genevan Psalm 138:1

Psalm 42 from the Scottish Psalter of 1650. Recorded at 'Arbroath' youth weekend.

5  O why art thou cast down, my soul?
         why in me so dismayed?
      Trust God, for I shall praise him yet,
         his count'nance is mine aid.

      7  At the noise of thy water-spouts
         deep unto deep doth call;
      Thy breaking waves pass over me,
         yea, and thy billows all.

   8  His loving-kindness yet the Lord
         command will in the day,
      is song's with me by night; to God,
         by whom I live, I'll pray:

   9  And I will say to God my rock,
         Why me forgett'st thou so?
      Why, for my foes' oppression,
         thus mourning do I go?

Psalm 42 (Tune: Seek Ye First)

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Psalm 1b sung a capella from Sing Psalm (2003)(Produced by the Free Church of Scotland). Meter: 88.88.88

1 How blessed the one who does not walk
Where wicked men would guide his feet,
Who does not stand in sinners’ paths
Or sit upon the scorners’ seat.
2 The law of God is his delight,
His meditation day and night.

3 He prospers like a tree, which has
Been planted by a flowing stream,
And in its season yields its fruit;
Its leaves are always fresh and green.
In every act and every word
He knows the blessing of the LORD.

4 Not so the wicked: they are like
The chaff the wind will blow away.
5 They will not in the judgment stand,
Nor sinners with the righteous stay.
6 God knows the way the righteous go;
The wicked’s way he’ll overthrow.

Psalm 1 b (Tune: St Petersburg)

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Sung acapella from: Sing Psalms 2003 (Produced by the Free Church of Scotland). Sung at Dowanvale Free Church. Meter: (CM)

1 O LORD, you have examined me,
you know me through and through.
2 My sitting, rising—all my thoughts
afar are known to you.

5 You hem me in—behind, before;
you lay on me your hand.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful,
too high to understand.

7 Where can I from your Spirit flee
or from your presence go?
8 If to the heavens, you are there,
or in the depths below.

9 If I should take the wings of dawn
and dwell beyond the sea,
10 There also you would be my guide,
your right hand holding me.

Psalm 139 v1-10 (Tune: St Andrew)

Copyright: Sing Psalms 2003 (Produced by the Free Church of Scotland). 
Sung by Dowanvale Free Church Of Scotland

1 The world and all in it are God’s,
all peoples of the earth,
2 For it was founded by the LORD
upon the seas beneath.
3 Who may ascend the hill of God,
or in his temple stand?
4 The one who shuns false gods and lies,
who’s pure in heart and hand.
5 He will find favour from the LORD,
and from his Saviour grace.
6 Thus are they blessed, O Jacob’s God,
who truly seek your face.
7 You ancient gates, lift up your heads;
you doors, be opened wide—
So may the King of glory come
for ever to abide.
8 But who is this exalted King?
What glorious King is he?
It is the LORD of strength and might,
the LORD of victory.
9 You ancient gates, lift up your heads;
you doors, be opened wide—
So may the King of glory come
for ever to abide.
10 But who is this exalted King?
Who can this sovereign be?
The LORD Almighty, he is King
of glory, none but he.

Psalm 24 (Tune: Winchester)

from the Scottish Metrical Psalter of 1650

14  But I with expectation
         will hope continually;
      And yet with praises more and more
         I will thee magnify.

  15  Thy justice and salvation
         my mouth abroad shall show,
      Ev'n all the day; for I thereof
         the numbers do not know.

  16  And I will constantly go on
         in strength of God the Lord;
      And thine own righteousness, ev'n thine
         alone, I will record.

  17  For even from my youth, O God,
         by thee I have been taught;
      And hitherto I have declared
         the wonders thou hast wrought.

Psalm 71 v14-17 (Tune: St Leonard)

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Sung acapella from: Sing Psalms 2003 (Produced by the Free Church of Scotland). Sung a capella by Dowanvale Free Church Of Scotland. Meter: CM

1 How excellent a thing it is,
how pleasant and how good,
When brothers dwell in unity
and live as brothers should!

2 For it is like the precious oil,
poured out on Aaron’s head,
That, running over, down his beard,
upon his collar spread.

3 Like Hermon’s dew, upon the hill
of Zion it descends.
The LORD bestows his blessing there—
the life that never ends.

Psalm 133 (Tune: Bishopthorpe)

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Psalm 4 sung acapella from The Scottish Metrical Psalter of 1650. (Meter: CM) 

1  Give ear unto me when I call,
         God of my righteousness:
      Have mercy, hear my pray'r; thou hast
         enlarged me in distress.
     
6  O who will show us any good?
         is that which many say:
      But of thy countenance the light,
         Lord, lift on us alway.
   
7  Upon my heart, bestowed by thee,
         more gladness I have found
      Than they, ev'n then, when corn and wine
         did most with them abound.
   
8  I will both lay me down in peace,
         and quiet sleep will take;
      Because thou only me to dwell
         in safety, Lord, dost make.

Psalm 4 (Tune: Crimond)

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Text from the Scottish Metrical Psalter of 1650. Recorded during a wedding at St Jude's Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland (Glasgow). circa 2011

   7  I bless the Lord, because he doth
         by counsel me conduct;
      And in the seasons of the night
         my reins do me instruct.

 8  Before me still the Lord I set:
         since it is so that he
      Doth ever stand at my right hand,
         I shall not movèd be.

   9  Because of this my heart is glad,
         and joy shall be expressed
      Ev'n by my glory; and my flesh
         in confidence shall rest.

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Psalm 16 (Tune: Moravia) @ St Jude's Free Presbyterian Wedding

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Psalm 23 sung acapella from The Scottish Metrical Psalter of 1650. (Meter: CM)

 1  The Lord's my shepherd, I'll not want.
   2     He makes me down to lie
      In pastures green: he leadeth me
         the quiet waters by
.
   3  My soul he doth restore again;
         and me to walk doth make
      Within the paths of righteousness,
         ev'n for his own name's sake.

   4  Yea, though I walk in death's dark vale,
         yet will I fear none ill:
      For thou art with me; and thy rod
         and staff me comfort still.

   5  My table thou hast furnished
         in presence of my foes;
      My head thou dost with oil anoint,
         and my cup overflows.

   6  Goodness and mercy all my life
         shall surely follow me:
      And in God's house for evermore
         my dwelling-place shall be.

Psalm 23 (Tune: Bays of Harris)

Based on Psalm 51:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, and 16-17
Music: Jun-G Bargayo, SJ and Junjun Delmonte, SJ
Arrangement: Gino Torres
Performed by the Bukas Palad Music Ministry
Featuring Bubbles Bandojo, rc and Martin Perfecto
From the album CHRISTIFY

Miserere (Psalm 51)

A selection of various Exclusive Psalmody recordings.

CD Scottish Psalter

Psalm 42 - Light Hill

PsalmThree

1  By Babel's streams we sat and wept,
       when Zion we thought on.
 2  In midst thereof we hanged our harps
       the willow-trees upon.

 3  For there a song required they,
       who did us captive bring:
    Our spoilers called for mirth, and said,
       A song of Zion sing.

 4  O how the Lord's song shall we sing
       within a foreign land?
 5  If thee, Jerus'lem, I forget,
       skill part from my right hand.

 6  My tongue to my mouth's roof let cleave,
       if I do thee forget, 
    Jerusalem, and thee above
       my chief joy do not set.

 7  Remember Edom's children, Lord,
       who in Jerus'lems day,
    Ev'n unto its foundation,
       Raze, raze it quite, did say.

 8  O daughter thou of Babylon,
       near to destruction;
    Blessed shall he be that thee rewards,
       as thou to us hast done.

 9  Yea, happy surely shall he be
       thy tender little ones
    Who shall lay hold upon, and them
       shall dash against the stones.

Psalm 137 Tune - Invocation [SMV] by Christ Covenant RPC: http://www.christcovenantrpc.org/audio/psalm_singing.htm

Psalm 137 (Tune: Dunlap's Creek)

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Psalm 12 sung a capella from Sing Psalm (2003)(Produced by the Free Church of Scotland). Meter: (11 10 11 10)

	1	Help, LORD, because the godly have quite vanished,
			and faithful folk we can no longer see.
	2	Each one tells falsehood even to his neighbour;
			with flattering lips they speak deceitfully.

	3	Now may the LORD cut off all lips which flatter,
			and every tongue which speaks with boastful word.
	4	Such people say, “We with our tongues will triumph;
			we own our lips—who then can be our lord?”

	5	“Because the weak have suffered great oppression,
			and I have heard the needy’s groaning cries,
		Now I will guard them from those who malign them.
			To help them,” says the LORD, “I will arise.”

		7	O LORD, you will preserve us safe for ever
			and from this evil age keep us secure;
	8	For here the wicked strut about quite freely,
			and praise is giv’n to all that is impure.

Psalm 12  (Tune: Kildonan)

Recorded by the Scottish Festival Singers
Tune: Bryn Calfaria - William Owen	(1852)
From The Book of Psalms for Singing are used by permission of Crown & Covenant Publications.

Psalm 80 (Tune: Bryn Calfaria)

74.  As the hart, about to falter (Psalm 42)
From the blue 1959/1976 CRC Psalter Hymnal
Improvised from the Genevan Psalter tune by Louis Bourgeois (1551)

Michael R. Kearney, piano
April 28, 2012

74.  As the hart, about to falter (Psalm 42)



38. The Lord's my Shepherd (Psalm 23)
From the blue 1959/1976 CRC Psalter Hymnal
Sung by the approximately two hundred delegates at the eighth Synod of the United Reformed Churches in North America
Michael R. Kearney, Allen Renaissance electronic organ

Nyack College, Nyack, New York
Friday, June 15th, 2012 (Evening Session)

Available on CD from Pompton Plains Reformed Bible Church: "My Heart Was Glad to Hear the Welcome Sound"
(Audio enhanced in this version)

URCNA Website: www.urcna.org/

38.  The Lord's my Shepherd, I'll not want (Psalm 23)

184. Now with joyful exultation (Psalm 95)
From the blue 1959/1976 CRC Psalter Hymnal
Sung by the congregation of West Sayville Reformed Bible Church (URCNA)
Long Island, New York
Michael R. Kearney, piano

184.  Now with joyful exultation (Psalm 95)

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