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The Psalm singing on this MP3 (digital download) covers Psalm 102:23-28, as sung to the tune Communion from the 1650 Scottish Metrical Psalter.

23     My strength he weaken'd in the way,

          My days of life he shortened.

24     My God, O take me not away

          In mid-time of my days, I said:

       Thy years throughout all ages last.

25        Of old thou hast established

       The earth's foundation firm and fast:

           Thy mighty hands the heav'ns have made.

26   They perish shall, as garments do,

          But thou shalt evermore endure;

       As vestures, thou shalt change them so;

          And they shall all be changed sure:

27   But from all changes thou art free;

          Thy endless years do last for aye.

28   Thy servants, and their seed who be,

          Establish'd shall before thee stay.

John Brown of Haddington's notes on Psalm 102 follow:

This psalm relates to some grievous distress; wherein are observable,

(1.) Bitter complaints of divine hidings and wrath; of sore bodily troubles; of inward griefs and perplexities; of calumnious reproaches; of sudden changes of condition, and of apparent nearness to death, ver. 1-11. (2.) Seasonable comforts against these grievances, arising from the eternity and unchangeableness of God, ver. 13, 24, 27; and from the deliverances, spread, and establishment he will grant to his church, in answer to the prayers, and for the comfort of his afflicted people, ver. 13-28.

While I sing, think, my soul, if I am exercised by my troubles; if these of the inner man bear heaviest on my heart; and if I am a cordial partaker with Zion in her joys and griefs.

From: THE PSALMS OF DAVID IN METRE (The Scottish Metrical Psalter of 1650) by the Westminster Assembly, Covenanted Church of Scotland General Assembly and Francis Rouse (1646-1650), With Notes Exhibiting the Connection, Explaining the Sense, and for Directing and Animating the Devotion On Each Psalm by John Brown Of Haddington (from the 1844 edition of this Psalter published by Robert Carter, New York).

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