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Psalm 131 sung Acapella from the Scottish Psalter of 1650. Support the psalms - www.patreon.com/join/psalms

1  My heart not haughty is, O Lord,
       mine eyes not lofty be;
    Nor do I deal in matters great,
       or things too high for me.

 2  I surely have myself behaved
       with quiet sp'rit and mild,
    As child of mother weaned: my soul
       is like a weanèd child.

 3  Upon the Lord let all the hope
       of Israel rely,
    Ev'n from the time that present is
       unto eternity.

Psalm 131 (Tune: Humility)

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Text from the Scottish Metrical Psalter of 1650.

16  All that fear God, come, hear, I'll tell
         what he did for my soul.
  17  I with my mouth unto him cried,
         my tongue did him extol.

  18  If in my heart I sin regard,
         the Lord me will not hear:
  19  But surely God me heard, and to
         my prayer's voice gave ear.

  20  O let the Lord, our gracious God,
         for ever blessed be,
      Who turned not my pray'r from him,
         nor yet his grace from me.

Psalm 66 v16-20 (Tune: Crediton)

A PSALM sung acapella from the Scottish Psalter of 1650(Meter: CM)
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Recorded at the general assembly of the Church of Scotland.

7 Ye gates, lift up your heads on high;
ye doors that last for aye,
Be lifted up, that so the King
of glory enter may.
8 But who of glory is the King?
The mighty Lord is this;
Ev'n that same Lord, that great in might
and strong in battle is.

9 Ye gates, lift up your heads; ye doors,
doors that do last for aye,
Be lifted up, that so the King
of glory enter may.
10 But who is he that is the King
of glory? who is this?
The Lord of hosts, and none but he,
the King of glory is.

Psalm 24 (Tune: St Georges Edinburgh)(congregation of 1000 people)

Text: Scottish Psalter (1650) Recorded Arbroath FCC Youth Weekend
(Meter: CM)

31  If they my laws break, and do not
         keep my commandements;
  32  I'll visit then their faults with rods,
         their sins with chastisements.

  33  Yet I'll not take my love from him,
         nor false my promise make.
  34  My cov'nant I'll not break, nor change
         what with my mouth I spake.

  35  Once by my holiness I sware,
         to David I'll not lie;
  36  His seed and throne shall, as the sun,
         before me last for aye.

  37  It, like the moon, shall ever be
         established stedfastly;
      And like to that which in the heav'n
         doth witness faithfully.

  38  But thou, displeased, hast cast off,
         thou didst abhor and loathe;
      With him that thine anointed is
         thou hast been very wroth.

Psalm 89 v31-38 (Tune: Winchester)

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Copyright: Sing Psalms 2003 (Produced by the Free Church of Scotland). 1998 Glasgow Psalm Singing Recital. Meter: 86.886

1 Blessed is the one who turns away
from where the wicked walk,
Who does not stand in sinners’ paths
or sit with those who mock.

2 Instead he finds God’s holy law
his joy and great delight;
He makes the precepts of the LORD
his study day and night.

3 He prospers ever like a tree
that’s planted by a stream,
And in due season yields its fruit;
its leaves are always green.

4 Not so the wicked! They are like
the chaff that’s blown away.
5 They will not stand when judgment comes
or with the righteous stay.

6 It is the LORD who sees and knows
the way the righteous go,
But those who live an evil life
the LORD will overthrow.

Psalm 1 a (Tune: Creator)

 1     Lord, haste me to deliver;
         with speed, Lord, succor me.
   2  Let them that for my soul do seek
         shamed and confounded be:

         Turned back be they, and shamed,
         that in my hurt delight.
   3  Turned back be they, Ha, ha! that say,
         their shaming to requite.

   4     In thee let all be glad,
         and joy that seek for thee:
      Let them who thy salvation love
         say still, God praisèd be.

   5     I poor and needy am;
         come, Lord, and make no stay:
      My help thou and deliv'rer art;
         O Lord, make no delay.

Psalm 70  (Tune: Garelochside)

Psalm 37 v 23-30 - Lloyd

Psalm 25 v8-13 (Tune: Diademata)

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Copyright: Sing Psalms 2003. Psalm 2 sung acapella at a Free Church Glasgow Psalmody Recital, used with permission. (Meter: LM)

1 Why do the heathen nations rage?
Why do the peoples plot in vain?
2 Earth’s kings combine in enmity;
Her rulers join against God’s reign.

They take their stand against the LORD
And challenge his anointed one:
3 “Let us break off their chains from us;
With their restraints let us be done.”

4 The One enthroned in heaven laughs;
The Lord on high derides them all.
5 Then he rebukes them in his wrath;
His rage and terror on them fall.

6 The LORD has made it known to them:
“My chosen king I have installed
On Zion, my own holy hill.
He is the one whom I have called.”

Psalm 2 v1-6 (Tune: Rimington)

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Text from the Scottish Metrical Psalter of 1650.

 6     Thy royal seat, O Lord,
         for ever shall remain:
      The scepter of thy kingdom doth
         all righteousness maintain.

   7     Thou lov'st right, and hat'st ill;
         for God, thy God, most high,
      Above thy fellows hath with th' oil
         of joy anointed thee.

   8     Of myrrh and spices sweet
         a smell thy garments had,
      Out of the iv'ry palaces,
         whereby they made thee glad.

   9     And in thy glorious train
         kings' daughters waiting stand;
      And thy fair queen, in Ophir gold,
         doth stand at thy right hand.

Psalm 45 v6-9 (Tune: Carlisle)

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Audio taken from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXoofHX-6jA
From the Scottish Psalter of 1650

Lyrics:
Praise ye the Lord; for it is good praise to our God to sing: 
for it is pleasant, and to praise it is a comely thing. 
God doth build up Jerusalem; and he it is a alone 
that the dispers'd of Isreal doth gather into one. 

Those that are broken in their heart, and grieved in their mind, 
He healeth, and their painful wounds he tenderly upbinds. 
He counts the number of the stars; he names them every one. 
Great is our Lord, and of great power; his wisdom search can none. 

The Lord lifts up the meek and casts the wicked to the ground. 
Sing to the Lord, and give him thanks; on harp his praises sound; 
Who covereth the heav'n with clouds who for the earth below 
prepareth rain, who maketh grass upon the mountains grow.

Psalm 147 v1-8 (Tune: Thanksgiving)

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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 1b (Tune: St Petersburg)

Recorded at: Inverness Festival of Psalms 2003(reproduced with permission) Copyright: Sing Psalms 2003 (Produced by the Free Church of Scotland) Psalm 17 (SM)

7 Display your steadfast love
and save with your right hand
All those who flee for help to you
when foes against them stand.

8 In shadow of your wings
hide me in times of strife;
And as the apple of your eye
preserve and guard my life.

15 But I in righteousness
your face will surely see;
And with your likeness, when I wake,
I satisfied will be.

Psalm 17 (Tune: Franconia)

Fraught with error, but a worthwhile endeavour.


Ps 17 v 1-6 Artaxerxes

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Text from the Scottish Metrical Psalter of 1650. 
Sung by Free Church of Scotland Choir(recording reproduced with permission)

(SM)
 4     Show me thy ways, O Lord;
         thy paths, O teach thou me:
   5  And do thou lead me in thy truth,
         therein my teacher be:

         For thou art God that dost
         to me salvation send,
      And I upon thee all the day
         expecting do attend.

   6     Thy tender mercies, Lord,
         I pray thee to remember,
      And loving-kindnesses; for they
         have been of old for ever.

   7     My sins and faults of youth
         do thou, O Lord, forget:
      After thy mercy think on me,
         and for thy goodness great.

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Psalm 25 v4-7 (Tune: Dennis)

A Cappella Psalm Singing from the 1650 Scottish Metrical Psalter with 4 part harmony.

Psalm 5 v 1-8 - Gräfenberg [1650 SP] (CM)

Psalm 4 v 1-7 - Abbey [1650 SP] (CM)

Psalm 3 - St Botolph [1650 SP] (CM)

Psalm 2 v 1-8 -  Westminster [1650 SP] (CM)

Psalm 1 - St Peter [1650 SP] (CM)

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1  Attend, my people, to my law;
         thereto give thou an ear;
      The words that from my mouth proceed
         attentively do hear.

   2  My mouth shall speak a parable,
         and sayings dark of old;
   3  The same which we have heard and known,
         and us our fathers told.

   4  We also will them not conceal
         from their posterity;
      Them to the generation
         to come declare will we:

      The praises of the Lord our God,
         and his almighty strength,
      The wondrous works that he hath done,
         we will show forth at length.

From the Scottish Psalter of 1650

Psalm 78 v1-4 (Tune: Tallis)

Psalm 27 sung acapella from The Scottish Metrical Psalter of 1650. (Meter: CM)(Meter: CM)

7  O Lord, give ear unto my voice,
         when I do cry to thee;
      Upon me also mercy have,
         and do thou answer me.

   8  When thou didst say, seek ye my face,
         then unto thee reply
      Thus did my heart, above all things
         thy face, Lord, seek will I.

   9  Far from me hide not thou thy face;
         put not away from thee
      Thy servant in thy wrath: thou hast
         an helper been to me.

      O God of my salvation,
         leave me not, nor forsake:
  10  Though me my parents both should leave,
         the Lord will me up take.

Psalm 27 (Tune: St Botolph)

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Psalm 17 sung acapella from The Scottish Metrical Psalter of 1650. (Meter: CM)Used with permission of the Northern Presbytery Choir.

 5  Hold up my goings, Lord, me guide
         in those thy paths divine,
      So that my footsteps may not slide
         out of those ways of thine.

   6  I called have on thee, O God,
          because thou wilt me hear:
       That thou may'st hearken to my speech,
          to me incline thine ear.

   7  Thy wondrous loving-kindness show,
         thou that, by thy right hand,
      Sav'st them that trust in thee from those
         that up against them stand.

   8  As th' apple of the eye me keep;
         in thy wings shade me close
   9  From lewd oppressors, compassing
         me round, as deadly foes.

Psalm 17 (Tune: St Bernard)

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Used with permission of the Northern Presbytery Choir.

9 All nations whom thou mad'st shall come
and worship rev'rently
Before thy face; and they, O Lord,
thy name shall glorify.

10 Because thou art exceeding great,
and works by thee are done
Which are to be admir'd; and thou
art God thyself alone.
 
11 Teach me thy way, and in thy truth,
O Lord, then walk will I;
Unite my heart, that I thy name
may fear continually.

12 O Lord my God, with all my heart
to thee I will give praise;
And I the glory will ascribe
unto thy name always:
 
13 Because thy mercy toward me
in greatness doth excel;
And thou deliver'd hast my soul
out from the lowest hell.

Psalm 86 (Tune: St Anne)

Psalm 46 from the Scottish Metrical Psalter (1650) recorded during a worship service at Airdrie RPC

 1  God is our refuge and our strength,
         in straits a present aid;
   2  Therefore, although the earth remove,
         we will not be afraid:
   
   Though hills amidst the seas be cast;
   3     Though waters roaring make,
      And troubled be; yea, though the hills,
         by swelling seas do shake.
   
4  A river is, whose streams do glad
         the city of our God;
      The holy place, wherein the Lord
         most high hath his abode.
 
  5  God in the midst of her doth dwell;
         nothing shall her remove:
      The Lord to her an helper will,
         and that right early, prove.

Psalm 46 v1-5 (Tune: Stroudwater)

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