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The Psalm singing on this MP3 (digital download) covers Psalm 43:3-5, as sung to the tune Sawley from the 1650 Scottish Metrical Psalter.

3    O send thy light forth and thy truth;

          let them be guides to me,

      And bring me to thine holy hill,

          ev'n where thy dwellings be.

4    Then will I to God's altar go,

          to God my chiefest joy:

      Yea, God, my God, thy name to praise

          my harp I will employ.

5    Why art thou then cast down, my soul?

          what should discourage thee?

      And why with vexing thoughts art thou

          disquieted in me?

John Brown of Haddington's notes on Psalm 43 follow:

This psalm was probably composed on the same occasion as the former; and contains, (1.) David's strong cries to his God, for help against, and deliverance from, his ungodly, unjust, and crafty oppressors, ver. 1-2. (2.) His earnest longings to be restored to the enjoyment of his God in his public ordinances, ver. 3-4. (3.) His inward disquiets composed by believing claims, of God as his God, and firm dependence on his promises, ver. 5.

While I sing, let my soul be deeply affected with the injuries I daily receive from Satan and my own lusts. Let my heart and flesh cry out for God, the living God, as my God, and mine exceeding joy. And let me still all the tumults of my heart with this ­ That he is my God and my all; my God that doth me save.

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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