PsalterMETRICAL PSALMS

Psalm 119

Setting

Do good to me and I will live;

Free Church of Scotland psalter · L.M.

Verses 17–24 of Psalm 119

The words

Do good to me and I will live; Your servant will obey your word. Open my eyes that I may see Great wonders in your law, O LORD.

I am a stranger on the earth; Do not hide your commands from me. Consumed with longing is my soul, Because your laws I yearn to see.

You have rebuked the insolent; They’re cursed who from your precepts stray. Remove from me contempt and scorn, For all your statutes I obey.

Though rulers plot to harm my name, I’ll meditate on your decree. Your statutes are my great delight, For they are counsellors to me.

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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rights-verified (display held); FCS terms recorded 2026-10-08 — verbatim text in a notated setting with independent tune MIDI is within terms (text free, FCS attribution displayed); copy/print/offline not granted; no audio derivatives
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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.