Setting
My soul for your salvation yearns and faints;
Free Church of Scotland psalter · 10 10 10 10
Verses 81–88 of Psalm 119
The words
My soul for your salvation yearns and faints; But I have set my hope upon your word. I’m weary looking for your promises; I say, “When will you comfort me, O LORD?”
I’m shrivelled like a wineskin in the smoke, Yet I do not forget all your decrees. O how much longer must your servant wait? When will you punish all my enemies?
The proud have hidden pitfalls in my way; Their mind is fixed against your holy laws. All your commands remain for ever sure; LORD, help me! for they hound me without cause.
They almost wiped your servant from the earth, But your commandments I did not betray. Preserve my life according to your love; The statutes of your mouth I will obey.
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
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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
10 tunes · all curated well-matched · 10.10.10.10
Borough
Cluny
Ellers
Farley Castle
Longwood
The other 5 tunes
Protection
Song 22
St. Agnes (Langran)
Stoner Hill
Suilven
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.