Setting
How excellent a thing it is,
Free Church of Scotland psalter · C.M.
The words
How excellent a thing it is, how pleasant and how good, When brothers dwell in unity and live as brothers should!
For it is like the precious oil, poured out on Aaron’s head, That, running over, down his beard, upon his collar spread.
Like Hermon’s dew, upon the hill of Zion it descends. The LORD bestows his blessing there— the life that never ends.
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
Bishopthorpe
curated well-matchedCM
St. Botolph
curated well-matchedCM
How is this list ordered?
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