Setting
Praise the LORD, all you his servants!
Free Church of Scotland psalter · 8 7 8 7
The words
Praise the LORD, all you his servants! Praise his name with glad accord, You who serve God in his temple, in the dwelling of the LORD.
Praise the LORD, for this is fitting. He is good; his praise proclaim. Praise the LORD, for it is pleasant to sing praises to his name.
For the LORD has chosen Jacob to belong to him alone, Israèl to be his treasure, set apart to be his own.
For I know the LORD is mighty; greater than all gods is he. He is sovereign in the heavens, on the earth and in the sea.
He makes thunder-clouds to gather from the earth’s remotest shores; With the rain he sends forth lightning, brings the wind out from his stores.
He struck down all Egypt’s firstborn; man and beast alike were slain. Mighty signs he showed in Egypt, routing Pharaoh and his men.
Many nations he defeated; kings he slew with mighty hand— Og of Bashan and king Sihon, all the kings of Canaan’s land.
All their lands he gave to Jacob, to his people Israèl; As a heritage he gave them lands where they might safely dwell.
LORD, your name endures for ever; your renown is ever great. For the LORD sustains his servants and his folk will vindicate.
But the idols of the nations, made of silver and of gold, Are by human hands created with a hammer or a mould.
Mouths they have, but speak they cannot; eyes they have, but cannot see. Ears they have, but hear they cannot; in their mouths no breath can be.
Those who make them will be like them; those who trust them are the same. Praise the LORD, O house of Israel, Aaron’s house, exalt his name.
Praise the LORD, O house of Levi; you who fear him, praise the LORD! Praise the LORD who dwells in Zion, in Jerus’lem praise 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
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Tunes it can be sung to
4 tunes · all curated well-matched · 8.7.8.7
In Babilone
John Street
Laus Deo
Stuttgart
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.
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