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The Psalm singing on this MP3 (digital download) covers Psalm 20:1-5, as sung to the tune Orton, from the 1650 Scottish Metrical Psalter.

1    Jehovah hear thee in the day

          when trouble he doth send:

      And let the name of Jacob's God

          thee from all ill defend.

2    O let him help send from above,

          out of his sanctuary:

      From Sion, his own holy hill,

          let him give strength to thee.

3    Let him remember all thy gifts,

          accept thy sacrifice:

4    Grant thee thine heart's wish, and fulfil

          thy thoughts and counsel wise.

5    In thy salvation we will joy;

          in our God's name we will

      Display our banners: and the Lord

          thy prayers all fulfil.

John Brown of Haddington's notes on Psalm 20 follow:

Probably this psalm was composed, to be a prayer for success in some particular expedition of David's wars. Here, (1.) The people pray for their king, that God would grant him his requests; protect, assist, and strengthen him in his work; accept his oblations, and succeed his projects for the public welfare, ver. 1-4. (2.) They triumph in God as their only strength and deliverer, in whom they shall be more than conquerors, ver. 5-6.

Let me not forget Jesus, for whom prayer is made continually; Jesus, who shall daily be praised, and whom the Father heareth always; accepts his sacrifice, and crowns him with glory and honour. And let no creature, but Jehovah as my God in Christ, be the ground and the object of all my faith and expectation.

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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