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The Psalm singing on this MP3 (digital download) covers Psalm 125:1-5, as sung to the tune Bishopthorpe, from the 1650 Scottish Metrical Psalter.

1    They in the Lord that firmly trust

          shall be like Sion hill,

      Which at no time can be remov'd,

          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

          thy goodness, Lord, impart;

     And do thou good to those that are

          upright within their heart.

5    But as for such as turn aside

          after their crooked way,

      God shall lead forth with wicked men:

          on Isr'el peace shall stay.

John Brown of Haddington's notes on Psalm 125 follow:

Let me, in this psalm, behold, (1.) The happiness of the saints; in the fixedness of their new-covenant state; the safety of their condition: the seasonableness of their deliverances; and the advantage of effectual fervent prayers in their behalf, ver. 1-4. (2.) The misery of the wicked, particularly of the apostates from the ways of God, ver. 5.

Let me then never be of them that draw back, but of them who believe, to the fixing of their heart, and the saving of their soul.

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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