Metrical Psalms to music (accompanied)

A PSALM sung acapella from the Scottish Psalter of 1650 
Recorded by members of High Free Church, Stornoway(singpraise.net). (Meter: CM)
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 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 (Tune: Stroudwater) | With Music

Psalm 139 sung by Ballymena FPC virtual youth choir during the Covid-19 lockdown.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-YrVulIFVw

Psalm 139 (Tune: St Columba) | Choir With Music

paraphrase of Psalm 149

Bring to the Lord a glad new song,
children of grace extol your king:
your love and praise to God belong -
to instruments of music, sing!
Let those be warned who spurn God's name,
let rulers all obey God's word,
for justice shall bring tyrants shame -
let every creature praise the Lord!

Sing praise within these hallowed walls,
worship beneath the dome of heaven;
by cymbals' sounds and trumpets' calls
let praises fit for God be given:
with strings and brass and wind rejoice -
then, join our song in full accord
all living things with breath and voice;
let every creature praise the Lord!

Psalm 149 (Tune: Jerusalem) [Choir With Organ]

Bless The Lord · Taizé · Jacques Berthier · Traditional
Sheet music: https://www.sanctuarycrc.org/worship_resources/pdf/Bless%20The%20Lord%20(Taize)%20(F%20-%20full%20score%20w%20descant).pdf

Chant:
Bless the Lord, my soul, and bless God's holy name.
Bless the Lord, my soul, who leads me into life.

Verse (in English):
It is God who forgives all your guilt,
who heals every one of your ills,
who redeems your life from the grave,
who crowns you with love and compassion.

The Lord is compassion and love,
slow to anger and rich in mercy.
God does not treat us according to our sins,
nor replay us according to our faults.

As a father has compassion on his children,
The Lord has pity on those who fear him,
for God knows of what we are made.
God remembers that we are dust.

"Bless the Lord, My Soul" by Jacques Berthier. Sung by Oasis Chorale at Cornerstone Mennonite Fellowship in Ephrata, Pennsylvania on July 11, 2021.

The Taizé Community (French: Communauté de Taizé) is an ecumenical Christian monastic community in Taizé, Saône-et-Loire, Burgundy, France. It is composed of about one hundred brothers, from Catholic and Protestant traditions, who originate from about thirty countries around the world. It was founded in 1940 by Brother Roger Schütz, a Reformed Protestant.

Taizé has become one of the world's most important sites of Christian pilgrimage, with a focus on youth. Over 100,000 young people from around the world make pilgrimages to Taizé each year for prayer, Bible study, sharing, and communal work. Through the community's ecumenical outlook, they are encouraged to live in the spirit of kindness, simplicity and reconciliation.

They have sought to demonstrate this in the music and prayers where songs are sung in many languages, and have included chants and icons from the Eastern Orthodox tradition. The music emphasizes simple phrases, usually lines from Psalms or other pieces of Scripture, repeated and sometimes also sung in canon.[17] Earlier Taizé community music was conceived and composed by Jacques Berthier.

Psalm 103 (Taizé | With Music)

Psalm 137 (With Music | "By The Waters of Babylon")

Text:  United Presbyterian Psalter (1912). Meter: ( 87.87 D)
Performed by Strawbridge House music group, from the album (July 2011), Roadside Hymns. 

Lyrics & sheet music: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aIv5dQOV9Cva1tVaIaVdyLAut0jXGCAP/view?usp=sharing

Strawbridge House is a Christian music group composed of members of the Gregg Strawbridge family, including Joy (vocals, cello, accordion), Jenna (vocals, violin, guitar, mandolin) and Julie (vocals). Their first album released (summer 2011) was Roadside Hymns. It features new hymn tunes (with old words) and arrangements (by Gregg Strawbridge), as well as (completely) original songs.

Roadside Hymns

Psalm 146 (Tune: Ripley) by Strawbridge House [Accompanied]

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This Earth Belongs To God
Words: Christopher Idle
Music: TRUMPET VOLUNTARY (J Clarke)
Arrangement: Noël Tredinnick Metre: Irregular

1 This earth belongs to God,
the world, its wealth, and all its people;
he formed the waters wide
and fashioned every sea and shore.

Who may go up the hill of the Lord
and stand in the place of holiness?
Only the one whose heart is pure,
whose hands and lips are clean.
2 Lift high your heads, you gates;
rise up, you everlasting doors,
as here now the King of glory
enters into full command.

Who is the King, this King of glory,
where is the throne he comes to claim?
Christ is the King, the Lord of glory,
fresh from his victory.
3 Lift high your heads, you gates,
and fling wide open the ancient doors,
for here comes the King of glory
taking universal power.

Who is the King, this King of glory,
what is the power by which he reigns?
Christ is the King, his cross his glory,
and by love he rules
4 All glory be to God the Father,
Son, and Holy Spirit;
from ages past it was, is now,
and evermore shall be.

Christopher Idle after Psalm 24
© Christopher Idle/Jubilate Hymns Ltd
6 9 6 8 9 7 9 6 Irregular

Psalm 24 (Christopher Idle & Jeremiah Clarke Version)

Chords: https://singpraisenet.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/psalm-139-sing-psalms-version-2-highland-cathedral-1.pdf 
Psalm 139 Recorded by members of High Free Church, Stornoway(https://singpraise.net). (Meter:  10.10.10.10)
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1 LORD, you have searched my life and know my heart;
You search me and you know me through and through.
2 You know me when I sit and when I rise,
And from afar my thoughts are known to you.

3 You see my going out and lying down,
And you have perfect knowledge of my ways.
4 Before I speak a word, you know it, LORD,
For nothing can be hidden from your gaze.


5 Behind, before, you hem me in, O LORD,
And you have laid on me your mighty hand.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
Too high to grasp, too great to understand.

7 Where from your Spirit can I go and hide?
And from your presence, LORD, where can I fly?
8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there;
And in the lowest depths, if there I lie.

9 If I take flight upon the wings of dawn
And if I settle far beyond the sea,
10 There also you will guide me with your hand
And still your right hand will keep hold of me.

11 If I should say, “The dark will cover me
And light around me be as dark as night,”
12 Yet even darkness is not dark to you—
The night is as the day, the darkness light.

- Sing Psalms, 2003 (Produced by the Free Church of Scotland)

Psalm 139 (Tune: Highland Cathedral) [accompanied]

Chords: https://singpraisenet.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/psalm-31-tune-_-finnart.pdf
Psalm 31 Recorded by members of High Free Church, Stornoway(https://singpraise.net)
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1 In you I’ve taken refuge, LORD;
You are my shelter in distress.
O let me never be ashamed,
But save me in your righteousness.

2 LORD, turn your ear to hear my cry;
Come quickly to deliver me,
And be my rock and firm defence,
My stronghold and security.

3 You are my fortress and my rock;
For your name’s sake be my sure guide.
4 Preserve me from the trap that’s set;
You are the refuge where I hide.

5 Redeem me, LORD, O God of truth;
My spirit I commit to you.
6 I hate all those who trust false gods;
I trust the LORD, for he is true.

7 I will rejoice and take delight
In all the love that you have shown,
For my affliction you have seen;
To you my soul’s distress is known.

- Sing Psalms, 2003 (Produced by the Free Church of Scotland)

Psalm 31 (Tune: Finnart) [accompanied]

Psalm 23 Recorded by members of High Free Church, Stornoway(https://singpraise.net). Support the psalms: www.patreon.com/psalms

1 The LORD is my shepherd; no want shall I know.
2 He makes me lie down where the green pastures grow;
He leads me to rest where the calm waters flow.

3 My wandering steps he brings back to his way,
In straight paths of righteousness making me stay;
And this he has done his great name to display.

4 Though I walk in death’s valley, where darkness is near,
Because you are with me, no evil I’ll fear;
Your rod and your staff bring me comfort and cheer.

5 In the sight of my en’mies a table you spread.
The oil of rejoicing you pour on my head;
My cup overflows and I’m graciously fed.

6 So surely your covenant mercy and grace
Will follow me closely in all of my ways;
I will dwell in the house of the LORD all my days.

- Sing Psalms, 2003 (Produced by the Free Church of Scotland)

Psalm 23 (Tune: Tarwathie) [accompanied]

Lifter Of My Head (Psalm 3)

A PSALM sung acapella from Sing Psalms, 2003.
Recorded by members of High Free Church, Stornoway(singpraise.net). (Meter: CM)
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1 You mighty ones, give to the LORD as his right,
Ascribe to the LORD God both glory and might.
2 To the LORD’s name due glory and honour accord;
In beauty of holiness worship the LORD.

3 The LORD’s voice is over the waters abroad,
And thunder proceeds from the glorious God.
Above all the waters God’s thunder is heard;
4 A powèrful voice is the voice of the LORD.

The voice of the LORD is majestic and loud;
5 By the voice of the LORD the great cedars are bowed.
Yes, even the cedars of Lebanon tall,
The LORD breaks in pieces and shatters them all.

6 Like the leap of a calf he shakes Lebanon’s rocks,
And Sirion skips like a startled wild ox.
7 The voice of the LORD causes lightning to flash;
8 The voice of the LORD makes the wilderness crash.

The LORD makes the desert of Kadesh to shake;
9 The LORD causes oaks of the forest to quake.
The trees of the forest he strips of their leaves,
And he in his temple great glory receives.

10 The LORD over floods sits as monarch alone;
The LORD sits for ever as King on his throne.
11 The LORD makes the strength of his people increase;
The LORD gives his people the blessing of peace.

Psalm 29 (Tune: St Denio) [accompanied]

A PSALM sung acapella from the Scottish Psalter of 1650 
Recorded by members of High Free Church, Stornoway(singpraise.net). (Meter: CM)
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   1     Lord, bless and pity us,
         shine on us with thy face:
   2  That th' earth thy way, and nations all
         may know thy saving grace.
   3     Let people praise thee, Lord;
         let people all thee praise.
   4  O let the nations be glad,
         in songs their voices raise:
         Thou'lt justly people judge,
         on earth rule nations all.
   5  Let people praise thee, Lord; let them
         praise thee, both great and small.
   6     The earth her fruit shall yield,
         our God shall blessing send.
   7  God shall us bless; men shall him fear
         unto earth's utmost end.

Psalm 67 (Tune: Selma)  | With Music

A PSALM sung acapella from the Scottish Psalter of 1650 
Recorded by members of High Free Church, Stornoway(singpraise.net). (Meter: CM)
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1 How lovely is thy dwelling-place,
O Lord of hosts, to me!
The tabernacles of thy grace
how pleasant, Lord, they be!
2 My thirsty soul longs veh’mently,
yea faints, thy courts to see:
My very heart and flesh cry out,
O living God, for thee.


3 Behold, the sparrow findeth out
an house wherein to rest;
The swallow also for herself
hath purchased a nest;
Ev’n thine own altars,* where she safe
her young ones forth may bring,
O thou almighty Lord of hosts,
who art my God and King.


4 Blessed are they in thy house that dwell,
they ever give thee praise.
5 Blessed is the man whose strength thou art,
in whose heart are thy ways:
6 Who passing thorough Baca’s vale,
therein do dig up wells;
Also the rain that falleth down
the pools with water fills.

Psalm 84 (Tune: Homes of Donegal) [accompanied]

A PSALM sung acapella from the Scottish Psalter of 1650 
Recorded by members of High Free Church, Stornoway(singpraise.net). (Meter: CM)
Support the psalms: www.patreon.com/psalms

1 O thou my soul, bless God the Lord;
and all that in me is
Be stirred up his holy name
to magnify and bless.

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 (Tune: Coleshill) [accompanied]

A PSALM Recorded by members of High Free Church, Version by the gettys, Stornoway(singpraise.net). 
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God be merciful to me
On Thy grace I rest my plea
Plenteous in compassion Thou
Blot out my transgressions now
Wash me make me pure within
Cleanse O cleanse me from my sin
Wash me make me pure within
Cleanse O cleanse me from my sin

Broken humbled to the dust
By Thy wrath and judgment just
Let my contrite heart rejoice
And in gladness hear Thy voice
From my sins O hide Thy face
Blot them out in boundless grace
From my sins O hide Thy face
Blot them out in boundless grace

Gracious God my heart renew
Make my Spirit right and true
Cast me not away from Thee
Let Thy Spirit dwell in me
Thy salvation’s joy impart
Steadfast make my willing heart
Thy salvation’s joy impart
Steadfast make my willing heart

Sinners then shall learn from me
And return O God to Thee
Saviour all my guilt remove
And my tongue shall sing Thy love
Touch my silent lips O Lord
And my mouth shall praise accord
Touch my silent lips O Lord
And my mouth shall praise accord
And my mouth shall praise accord, God be merciful to me

Psalm 51 (Getty tune)  | With Music

A PSALM sung acapella from the Scottish Psalter of 1650 
Recorded by members of High Free Church, Stornoway(singpraise.net). (Meter: CM)
Support the psalms: www.patreon.com/psalms

1 I waited for the Lord my God,
and patiently did bear;
At length to me he did incline
my voice and cry to hear.
2 He took me from a fearful pit,
and from the miry clay,
And on a rock he set my feet,
establishing my way.

3 He put a new song in my mouth,
our God to magnify:
Many shall see it, and shall fear,
and on the Lord rely.
4 O blessed is the man whose trust
upon the Lord relies;
Respecting not the proud, nor such
as turn aside to lies.

5 O Lord my God, full many are
the wonders thou hast done;
Thy gracious thoughts to us-ward far
above all thoughts are gone:
In order none can reckon them
to thee: if them declare,
And speak of them I would, they more
than can be numbered are.

Psalm 40 (Tune: Spancil Hill) [accompanied]

A PSALM sung acapella from the Scottish Psalter of 1650 
Recorded by members of High Free Church, Stornoway(singpraise.net). (Meter: CM)Support the psalms: www.patreon.com/psalms

1 I waited for the Lord my God,
and patiently did bear;
At length to me he did incline
my voice and cry to hear.

2 He took me from a fearful pit,
and from the miry clay,
And on a rock he set my feet,
establishing my way.

3 He put a new song in my mouth,
our God to magnify:
Many shall see it, and shall fear,
and on the Lord rely.

4 O blessed is the man whose trust
upon the Lord relies;
Respecting not the proud, nor such
as turn aside to lies.

Psalm 40 (Tune: Ballerma) | With Music

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