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The Psalm singing on this MP3 (digital download) covers Psalm 70:1-5, as sung to the tune Serenity from the 1650 Scottish Metrical Psalter.

1    Lord, haste me to deliver;

          with speed, Lord, succour me.

2    Let them that for my soul do seek

          sham'd and confounded be:

      Turn'd back be they, and sham'd,

          that in my hurt delight.

3    Turn'd back be they, Ha, ha! that say,

          their shaming to requite.

4    In thee let all be glad,

          and joy that seek for thee:

      Let them who thy salvation love

          say still, God praised be.

5    I poor and needy am;

          come, Lord, and make no stay:

     My help thou and deliv'rer art;

          O Lord, make no delay.

John Brown of Haddington's notes on Psalm 70 follow:

This psalm is much the same as the five last verses of the 40th. In it David prays, (1.) For divine help to himself, ver. 1, 5. (2.) For shame and confusion to his enemies, ver. 2-3. (3.) For joy and comfort to his friends, ver. 4.

While I sing, let me apply it to my own troubled circum stances, and so in a believing manner, bring them and the sinful causes thereof, to my remembrance.

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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