PsalterMETRICAL PSALMS

Psalm 119

Setting

How can the young keep their life pure?

Free Church of Scotland psalter · L.M.

Verses 9–16 of Psalm 119

The words

How can the young keep their life pure? By doing what your word demands! I seek you with my heart and soul; Let me not stray from your commands.

Your word I’ve hidden in my heart To keep me from offending you. Praise be to you, O LORD my God; Teach me your statutes firm and true.

Each law proceeding from your mouth I gladly with my lips have told. I love to follow your commands, As others love to count their gold.

I meditate upon your ways And on your precepts I reflect. I take delight in your decrees; Your word I never will neglect.

Source & provenance

Free Church of Scotland psalter · psalter

An unedited transcription of the Sing Psalms (Free Church of Scotland, 2003) edition.

Full provenance & rights
Base edition
Sing Psalms (Free Church of Scotland, 2003)
Editor
Psalmody Committee of the Free Church of Scotland
Editing
unedited transcription

Rights

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Tunes it can be sung to

18 tunes · all curated well-matched · LM

  • Adoramus

  • Amazing Love

  • Bow Brickhill

  • Breslau

  • Charminster

The other 13 tunes

  • Finnart

  • Galilee

  • Hamburg

  • Leighton

  • Marrel

  • Maryton

  • Melcombe

  • Morning Hymn

  • Rivaulx

  • Sutherland

  • Tallis' Canon

  • Trewen

  • Truro

How is this list ordered?

Curated pairings come first — a tune a curator recorded against this text, with the fitness they recorded. A tune that merely shares the meter is listed as a tune in the same meter and never as a pairing.

Nothing here is ranked by popularity or use. The page reports what a curator recorded, not a verdict of its own.