Psalms

Courtesy of Arann Reformed Baptist Church (http://arann-reformed.com/) in Dublin, Ireland for this recording.

Psalm 1 (Tune: Spancil Hill)

Psalm 6 (LM) - Soldau

Messe Royale de Versailles – Héritage des Manuscrits Bourbons is a newly imagined grand Baroque Mass by Akiva David, inspired by a personal encounter with history. While visiting distant Bourbon cousins in France, Akiva was shown a cache of original court music manuscripts—works once performed in the gilded Chapelle Royale of Versailles under the Sun King.

This album reawakens that vanished sound world: the opulence of Lully, the theatrical majesty of Rameau, the sacred gravitas of Delalande. Written for period instruments at historical pitch (A=415) and sung in liturgical Latin, each movement moves from solemn prayer to radiant celebration, from the hushed call of a single oboe to the triumphant blaze of natural trumpets and timpani. Recorded with the resonance and spatial grandeur of the Versailles chapel, it evokes the pomp, devotion, and artistic glory of the Ancien Régime.

A work of both personal heritage and historical imagination, this Mass stands as a tribute to the enduring beauty of sacred French Baroque music — and to the manuscripts that carried its spirit across centuries.

Track 4 Messe Royale de Versailles - Sanctus – Largo, B major

Sung by Greenville Presbyterian Church (Free Church Continuing)

 2  Because of all his mighty acts,
         with praise him magnify:
      O praise him, as he doth excel
         in glorious majesty.

   3  Praise him with trumpet's sound; his praise
         with psaltery advance:
   4  With timbrel, harp, stringed instruments,
         and organs, in the dance.

   5  Praise him on cymbals loud; him praise
         on cymbals sounding high.
   6  Let each thing breathing praise the Lord.
         Praise to the Lord give ye.

Psalm 150 (Tune: St Botolph)

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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.

Recorded during worship at Glasgow RP Church (10.1.2016)

Psalm 119 Part 8 (Tune: St Columba)

Psalm 22 v1-6 Tune - Bangor

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Ps 50 v 1-6 Golden Hill

Psalm 120 sung acapella From the Scottish Psalter of 1650. Recorded in Greenville Presbyterian Church (Free Church Continuing), USA.

3  What shall be giv'n thee? or what shall
       be done to thee, false tongue?
 4  Ev'n burning coals of juniper,
       sharp arrows of the strong.

 5  Woe's me that I in Mesech am
       a sojourner so long;
    That I in tabernacles dwell
       to Kedar that belong.

 6  My soul with him that hateth peace
       hath long a dweller been.
 7  I am for peace; but when I speak,
       for battle they are keen.

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Psalm 120 (Tune: Dundee)

Glasgow C - Psalm 22:21, St David

Recorded at RP international Conference 2004
Tune: Constance - Arthur S. Sullivan	(1875)
From The Book of Psalms for Singing. Used by permission of Crown & Covenant Publications.

O thank the LORD, for good is He;
His mercy lasts forever.
Thanks to the God of gods give ye;
His mercy lasts forever.

O praises give the King of kings;
His mercy lasts forever;
For He alone does wondrous things;
His mercy lasts forever;

He thought on us when we were low;
His mercy lasts forever;
And made us free from every foe;
His mercy lasts forever.

13
He food bestows on all that live;
His mercy lasts forever.
Thanks to the God of heaven give;
His mercy lasts forever.

Psalm 136 B (Tune: Constance)

Text from the Scottish Metrical Psalter of 1650.
Used with permission of the Northern Presbytery Choir.

1 O sing a new song to the Lord,
for wonders he hath done:
His right hand and his holy arm
him victory hath won.

2 The Lord God his salvation
hath caused to be known;
His justice in the heathen’s sight
he openly hath shown.

3 He mindful of his grace and truth
to Isr’el’s house hath been;
And the salvation of our God
all ends of th’ earth have seen.

4 Let all the earth unto the Lord
send forth a joyful noise;
Lift up your voice aloud to him,
sing praises, and rejoice.

Psalm 98 (Tune: Desert / Lyngham)

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Psalm 41 sung acapella from The Scottish Metrical Psalter of 1650. (Meter: CM)

 9  Yea, ev'n mine own familiar friend,
         on whom I did rely,
      Who ate my bread, ev'n he his heel
         against me lifted high.
      
  11  By this I know that certainly
         I favored am by thee;
      Because my hateful enemy
         triumphs not over me.

  12  But as for me, thou me uphold'st
         in mine integrity;
      And me before thy countenance
         thou sett'st continually.

  13  The Lord, the God of Israel,
         be blessed for ever then,
      From age to age eternally.
         Amen, yea, and amen.

Psalm 41 v9-13 (Tune: Culross)

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Sung from: Sing Psalms 2003 (Produced by the Free Church of Scotland). Recorded at Glasgow Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland (Meter: CM)

	4	One thing I’ll plead before the LORD,
			and this I’ll seek always:
		That I may come within God’s house
			and dwell there all my days—

		That on the beauty of the LORD
			I constantly may gaze,
		And in his house may seek to know
			direction in his ways.

	5	For in his dwelling he will keep
			me safe in troubled days;
		Within his tent he’ll shelter me,
			and on a rock me raise.

	6	My head will then be lifted high
			above my enemies;
		And in his tent I’ll sacrifice
			with shouts of joy and praise.

Psalm 27 v4-6 (Tune: Argyle)

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Sung acapella from: Sing Psalms 2003 (Produced by the Free Church of Scotland). ( 8 7.8 7 D)

1 Praise the LORD, my soul, O praise him!
LORD my God, you are so great!
2 Wrapped in light as with a garment,
clothed in majesty and state.
Like a tent he spreads the heavens,
3 and above the waters there
Sets the framework of his dwelling,
making it an upper layer.

He makes clouds of heav’n his chariot;
on the wings of wind he rides.
4 He makes flames of fire his servants;
winds obey what he decides.
5 He set earth on its foundations,
so that it should never move;
6 Then the deep submerged the mountains
till the waters stood above.

7 But when you rebuked the waters,
at your thunder they took flight;
8 They receded to the valleys,
flowing down the mountains’ height
To the place that you appointed.
9 You set bounds to their domain,
So that never will the waters
overwhelm the land again.

Psalm 104 v1-9 (Tune: Hyfrydol)

Psalm 16 (Gaelic) - Moravia

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)

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Psalm 98 (Tune: Desert / Lyngham)

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