Setting
I’ll praise you, LORD, with all my heart;
Free Church of Scotland psalter · C.M.
The words
I’ll praise you, LORD, with all my heart; your wonders I’ll proclaim. I will rejoice in you, Most High, and praise your holy name.
Before you all my enemies fall, they turn their backs and flee. For you upheld my right and cause and judged me righteously.
You have rebuked the nations, LORD; the wicked you destroyed. You blotted out the heathen’s name— for ever made it void.
The enemy have met their doom, destroyed eternally. You have uprooted all their towns; they’re lost to memory.
The LORD for ever reigns on high; his throne for judgment stands. He’ll judge the world in righteousness, with justice rule the lands.
The LORD will be a hiding place for those who are oppressed, And he will be a strong defence for those who are distressed.
All those who know your name, O LORD, in you their trust will place, For you do not abandon those who seek your gracious face.
Sing praises to the LORD who sits in Zion on his throne; Among the nations of the world proclaim what he has done.
For he, the avenger of man’s blood, remembers evermore; The cry of the afflicted one he never will ignore.
O LORD, see how my enemies are persecuting me. Have mercy! From the gates of death lift me and set me free,
So that in Zion’s city gates your praise I may declare, And that I may exult with joy in your salvation there.
The nations all have fallen down into the pit they made; Their feet are tangled in the net which they themselves have laid.
The LORD is known by righteous acts; his justice always stands. The wicked are ensnared in traps, the work of their own hands.
The wicked will return to where the dead have their abode, Where all the heathen nations go that have forgotten God.
The needy will not be ignored, forgotten all their days; The hopes and longings of the poor will not be crushed always.
Arise, LORD! Let not man prevail; judge nations from your throne. That they may know how frail they are, with fear, LORD, strike them down.
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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- Display
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Tunes it can be sung to
3 tunes
Dunfermline
curated well-matchedCM
Martyrs
curated well-matchedCM
Salisbury
curated well-matchedCM
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