Setting
They have oppressed me from my youth—
Free Church of Scotland psalter · L.M.
The words
They have oppressed me from my youth— Let Israèl now make this known— They have oppressed me from my youth; Yet I have not been overthrown.
They drew their ploughs across my back; The ploughmen made their furrows long. The LORD is just; he cut me free From cords of those who did me wrong.
May all who hate Jerusalem Be put to shame and turned away. May they, like grass upon the roof, Not grow, but wither and decay.
Such grass can fill no reaper’s hands; The gatherer has no reward. May passers-by not say to them: “We wish you blessing from the LORD!”
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
2 tunes
Saxony
curated well-matchedLM
Soldau
curated well-matchedLM
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