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The Psalm singing on this MP3 (digital download) covers Psalm 26:1-7, as sung to the tune St. Thomas, from the 1650 Scottish Metrical Psalter.

1    Judge me, O Lord, for I have walk'd

          in mine integrity:

      I trusted also in the Lord;

          slide therefore shall not I.

2    Examine me, and do me prove;

          try heart and reins, O God:

3    For thy love is before mine eyes,

          thy truth's paths I have trode.

4    With persons vain I have not sat,

          nor with dissemblers gone:

5    Th' assembly of ill men I hate;

          to sit with such I shun.

6    Mine hands in innocence, O Lord,

          I'll wash and purify;

      So to thine holy altar go,

          and compass it will I:

7    That I, with voice of thanksgiving,

          may publish and declare,

      And tell of all thy mighty works,

          that great and wondrous are.

John Brown of Haddington's notes on Psalm 26 follow:

Here, (1.) David solemnly appeals to God concerning his integrity; his constant regard to him and his grace; his regular attendance upon instituted ordinances: and his fixed aversion to sin and sinners, ver. 1-8. (2.) He deprecates from himself, the condemnation of the wicked, and his being shut up in society with them, ver. 9-10. (3.) Depending on the mercy of God, he resolves to hold fast his integrity, and maintain his confident hopes of eternal life, ver. 11-12.

While I sing, let the perfect God-man come into my mind. Let me wash myself in his blood, and so compass God's altar with songs of praise for his favours. Making Jesus' example my pattern, let his ordinances be my pleasure, and his people my sole intimates and familiars on earth.

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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