Setting
Do good to your servant, O LORD;
Free Church of Scotland psalter · 8 8 8 8 anapaestic · LM
Verses 65–72 of Psalm 119
The words
Do good to your servant, O LORD; Be true to the word I received. Teach knowledge and judgment to me, Because your commands I’ve believed.
Before my affliction I strayed, But now I will hold to your word. You are good and you do what is good; Teach me your commandments, O LORD.
Although the proud smear me with lies, I keep your decrees from the heart. Their hearts are unfeeling and hard; I love what your precepts impart.
It was good that I suffered distress, So that I might learn your commands. Your law is more precious to me Than silver and gold in my hands.
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
- Copyright
- 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
- Access
- free
- Display
- permitted
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.