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The Psalm singing on this MP3 (digital download) covers Psalm 148:1-14, as sung to the tune Lennox, from the 1650 Scottish Metrical Psalter.

1    The Lord of heav'n confess,

      On high his glory raise.

2    Him let all angels bless,

      Him all his armies praise.

3         Him glorify

           Sun, moon, and stars;

4         Ye higher spheres,

           And cloudy sky.

5   From God your beings are,

     Him therefore famous make;

     You all created were,

     When he the word but spake.

6         And from that place,

           Where fix'd you be

           By his decree,

           You cannot pass.

7    Praise God from earth below,

      Ye dragons, and ye deeps:

8    Fire, hail, clouds, wind, and snow.

      Whom in command he keeps.

9         Praise ye his name,

           Hills great and small,

           Trees low and tall;

10        Beasts wild and tame;

      All things that creep or fly.

11   Ye kings, ye vulgar throng,

      All princes mean or high;

12   Both men and virgins young,

          Ev'n young and old,

13       Exalt his name;

          For much his fame

          Should be extoll'd.

      O let God's name be prais'd

      Above both earth and sky;

14   For he his saints hath rais'd,

       And set their horn on high;

          Ev'n those that be

          Of Isr'el's race,

          Near to his grace.

          The Lord praise ye.

John Brown of Haddington's notes on Psalm 148 follow:

Here the psalmist, overwhelmed with enrapturing views of the glory, and a sense of the goodness of the Lord, issues forth a solemn call to all his fellow creatures, to assist him in his songs of praise. (1.) To the celestial creatures above, whether intellectual beings or not, ver. 1-6. (2.) To the terrestrial creatures below, whether irrational, ver. 7-10; or rational, ver. 11-13; but chiefly to his chosen people, ver. 14.

While angels and other rational beings actively trumpet forth his honours, and irrational creatures praise him objectively, in manifesting his excellencies marked on them; let my soul be ravished with his glory, amazed with his grace, and all inflamed with love, in uttering his praise, who, in Christ, is my God, and my exceeding Joy.

Cry out, all my powers, My God, who is like unto thee! Is there any work like unto thy work!

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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