1650 Scottish Psalter (Lining Out of The Psalms)

1 Praise ye the Lord: unto him sing a new song, and his praise In the assembly of his saints in sweet psalms do ye raise. 2 Let Isr’el in his Maker joy, and to him praises sing: Let all that Zion’s children are be joyful in their King. 3 O let them unto his great name give praises in the dance; Let them with timbrel and with harp in songs his praise advance. 4 For God doth pleasure take in those t...

1  The Lord of heav’n confess, On high his glory raise. 2  Him let all angels bless, Him all his armies praise. 3  Him glorify Sun, moon, and stars; 4  Ye higher spheres, And cloudy sky. 5  From God your beings are, Him therefore famous make; You all created were, When he the word but spake. 6  And from that place, Where fixed you be By his decree, You cannot pass. 7  Praise God from earth below,...

1  O Lord, thou art my God and King; Thee will I magnify and praise: I will thee bless, and gladly sing Unto thy holy name always. 2  Each day I rise I will thee bless, And praise thy name time without end. 3  Much to be praised, and great God is; His greatness none can comprehend. 4  Race shall thy works praise unto race, The mighty acts show done by thee. 5  I will speak of the glorious grace, A...

9  A new song I to thee will sing, Lord, on a psaltery; I on a ten-stringed instrument will praises sing to thee. 10  Ev’n he it is that unto kings salvation doth send; Who his own servant David doth from hurtful sword defend. 11  O free me from strange children’s hand, whose mouth speaks vanity; And their right hand a right hand is that works deceitfully. 12  That, as the plants, our sons may be...

1  O blessed ever be the Lord, who is my strength and might, Who doth instruct my hands to war, my fingers teach to fight. 2  My goodness, fortress, my high tow’r, deliverer, and shield, In whom I trust: who under me my people makes to yield. 3  Lord, what is man, that thou of him dost so much knowledge take? Or son of man, that thou of him so great account dost make? 4  Man is like vanity; his da...

1  Oh, hear my prayer, Lord, And unto my desire To bow thine ear accord, I humbly thee require; And, in thy faithfulness, Unto me answer make, And, in thy righteousness, Upon me pity take. 2  In judgment enter not With me thy servant poor; For why, this well I wot, No sinner can endure The sight of thee, O God: If thou his deeds shalt try, He dare make none abode Himself to justify. 3  Behold, the...

1  O Lord, I unto thee do cry, do thou make haste to me, And give an ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee. 2  As incense let my prayer be directed in thine eyes; And the uplifting of my hands as th’ ev ‘ning sacrifice. 3  Set, Lord, a watch before my mouth, keep of my lips the door. 4  My heart incline thou not unto the ills I should abhor, To practice wicked works with men that work iniquity;...

1  Lord, from the ill and froward man give me deliverance, And do thou safe preserve me from the man of violence: 2  Who in their heart mischievous things are meditating ever; And they for war assembled are continually together. 3  Much like unto a serpent’s tongue their tongues they sharp do make; And underneath their lips there lies the poison of a snake. 4  Lord, keep me from the wicked’s hands...

17  How precious also are thy thoughts, O gracious God, to me! And in their sum how passing great and numberless they be! 18  If I should count them, than the sand they more in number be: What time soever I awake, I ever am with thee. 19  Thou, Lord, wilt sure the wicked slay: hence from me bloody men. 20  Thy foes against thee loudly speak, and take thy name in vain. 21  Do not I hate all those,...

1  O Lord, thou hast me searched and known. 2  Thou know’st my sitting down, And rising up; yea, all my thoughts afar to thee are known. 3  My footsteps, and my lying down, thou compassest always; Thou also most entirely art acquaint with all my ways. 4  For in my tongue, before I speak, not any word can be, But altogether, lo, O Lord, it is well known to thee. 5  Behind, before, thou hast beset,...

1  Praise God, for he is kind: His mercy lasts for aye. 2  Give thanks with heart and mind To God of gods alway: For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally. 3  The Lord of lords praise ye, Whose mercies still endure. 4  Great wonders only he Doth work by his great pow’r For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally. 5  Which God omnipotent, By might and wisdom high,...

1  Give thanks to God, for good is he: for mercy hath he ever. 2  Thanks to the God of gods give ye: for his grace faileth never. 3  Thanks give the Lord of lords unto: for mercy hath he ever. 4  Who only wonders great can do: for his grace faileth never. 5  Who by his wisdom made heav’ns high: for mercy hath he ever. 6  Who stretch’d the earth above the sea: for his grace faileth never. 7  To him...

1  Praise ye the Lord, the Lord’s name praise; his servants, praise ye God. 2  Who stand in God’s house, in the courts of our God make abode. 3  Praise ye the Lord, for he is good; unto him praises sing: Sing praises to his name, because it is a pleasant thing. 4  For Jacob to himself the Lord did choose of his good pleasure, And he hath chosen Israel for his peculiar treasure. 5  Because I know a...

1  Behold, bless ye the Lord, all ye that his attendants are, Ev’n you that in God’s temple be, and praise him nightly there. 2  Your hands within God’s holy place lift up, and praise his name. 3  From Zion’ hill the Lord thee bless, that heav’n and earth did frame.

1  Behold, how good a thing it is, and how becoming well, Together such as brethren are in unity to dwell! 2  Like precious ointment on the head, that down the beard did flow, Ev’n Aaron’s beard, and to the skirts,* did of his garments go. 3  As Hermon’s dew, the dew that doth on Zion’ hills descend: For there the blessing God commands, life that shall never end.

1  David, and his afflictions all, Lord, do thou think upon; 2  How unto God he sware, and vowed to Jacob’s mighty One. 3  I will not come within my house, nor rest in bed at all; 4  Nor shall mine eyes take any sleep, nor eyelids slumber shall; 5  Till for the Lord a place I find, where he may make abode; A place of habitation for Jacob’s mighty God. 6  Lo, at the place of Ephratah of it we under...

1  My heart not haughty is, O Lord, mine eyes not lofty be; Nor do I deal in matters great, or things too high for me. 2  I surely have myself behaved with quiet sp’rit and mild, As child of mother weaned: my soul is like a weaned child. 3  Upon the Lord let all the hope of Israel rely, Ev’n from the time that present is unto eternity.

1  Lord, from the depths to thee I cried. 2  My voice, Lord, do thou hear: Unto my supplication’s voice give an attentive ear. 3  Lord, who shall stand, if thou, O Lord, should’st mark iniquity? 4  But yet with thee forgiveness is, that feared thou mayest be. 5  I wait for God, my soul doth wait, my hope is in his word. 6  More than they that for morning watch, my soul waits for the Lord; I say, m...

1  Oft did they vex me from my youth, may Isr’el now declare; 2  Oft did they vex me from my youth, yet not victorious were. 3  The plowers plowed upon my back; they long their furrows drew. 4  The righteous Lord did cut the cords of the ungodly crew. 5  Let Zion’s haters all be turned back with confusion. 6  As grass on houses’ tops be they, which fades ere it be grown: 7  Whereof enough to fill...

1  Blessed is each one that fears the Lord, and walketh in his ways; 2  For of thy labour thou shalt eat, and happy be always. 3  Thy wife shall as a fruitful vine by thy house’ sides be found: Thy children like to olive-plants about thy table round. 4  Behold, the man that fears the Lord, thus blessed shall he be. 5  The Lord shall out of Zion give his blessing unto thee: Thou shalt Jerus’lem’s g...

1  Except the Lord do build the house, the builders lose their pain: Except the Lord the city keep, the watchmen watch in vain. 2  ‘Tis vain for you to rise betimes, or late from rest to keep, To feed on sorrows’ bread; so gives he his beloved sleep. 3  Lo, children are God’s heritage, the womb’s fruit his reward. 4  The sons of youth as arrows are, for strong men’s hands prepared. 5  O happy is t...

1  When Zion’s bondage God turned back, as men that dreamed were we. 2  Then filled with laughter was our mouth, our tongue with melody: They ‘mong the heathen said, The Lord great things for them hath wrought. 3  The Lord hath done great things for us, whence joy to us is brought. 4  As streams of water in the south, our bondage, Lord, recall. 5  Who sow in tears, a reaping time of joy enjoy they...

1  They in the Lord that firmly trust shall be like Zion hill, Which at no time can be removed, but standeth ever still. 2  As round about Jerusalem the mountains stand alway, The Lord his folk doth compass so, from henceforth and for aye. 3  For ill men’s rod upon the lot of just men shall not lie; Lest righteous men stretch forth their hands unto iniquity. 4  Do thou to all those that be good th...

1 Now Israel may say, and that truly, If that the Lord had not our cause maintained; 2 If that the Lord had not our right sustained, When cruel men who us desired to slay Rose up in wrath, to make of us their prey; 3 Then certainly they had devoured us all, And swallowed quick, for ought that we could deem; Such was their rage, as we might well esteem. 4 And as fierce floods before them all things...

1  In my distress to God I cried, and he gave ear to me. 2  From lying lips, and guileful tongue, O Lord, my soul set free. 3  What shall be giv’n thee? or what shall be done to thee, false tongue? 4  Ev’n burning coals of juniper, sharp arrows of the strong. 5  Woe’s me that I in Mesech am a sojourner so long; That I in tabernacles dwell to Kedar that belong. 6  My soul with him that hateth peace...