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The Psalm singing on this MP3 (digital download) covers Psalm 90:14-17, as sung to the tune Farrant from the 1650 Scottish Metrical Psalter.

14   O with thy tender mercies, Lord,

          us early satisfy;

       So we rejoice shall all our days,

          and still be glad in thee.

15   According as the days have been,

          wherein we grief have had,

       And years wherein we ill have seen,

          so do thou make us glad.

16   O let thy work and pow'r appear

          thy servants' face before;

       And shew unto their children dear

          thy glory evermore:

17   And let the beauty of the Lord

          our God be us upon:

      Our handy-works establish thou,

          establish them each one.

John Brown of Haddington's notes on Psalm 90 follow:

This psalm was composed by Moses, the man of God, some time after God had sentenced the Hebrews to wandering and death in the wilderness, Num. 14. In it, (1.) Moses comforts himself, and his people, with the eternal and unchangeable duration of God himself, and their interest in him, ver. 1-2. (2.) He humbles himself and his people with the consideration of human frailty, ver. 3-6. (3.) He submits himself and his people to the righteous sentence of God passed upon them, ver. 7-11. (4.) By prayer he commits himself and his people to their gracious and merciful God; and requests the sanctified use of their awful chastisements; the averting of divine wrath, and the bestowal of true comforts and joys; the returns of his favour, and the progress of his work of mercy among their children, ver. 12-17.

Let me sing this psalm, as but the tenant of an hour, who hath none assurance of his present life: Sing it as resigned to my lot on earth, however afflicted; as active in preparation for death; and committing myself and family to the God of truth as our Redeemer, our God, and our everlasting all.

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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