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The Psalm singing on this MP3 (digital download) covers Psalm 102(II):16-22, as sung to the tune Warrington from the 1650 Scottish Metrical Psalter.

16   God in his glory shall appear,

          When Sion he builds and repairs.

17   He shall regard and lend his ear

          Unto the needy's humble pray'rs:

      Th' afflicted's pray'r he will not scorn.

18        All times this shall be on record:

      And generations yet unborn

          Shall praise and magnify the Lord.

19   He from his holy place look'd down,

          The earth he view'd from heav'n on high;

20   To hear the pris'ner's mourning groan,

          And free them that are doom'd to die;

21   That Sion, and Jerus'lem too,

          His name and praise may well record,

22   When people and the kingdoms do

          Assemble all to praise the Lord.

John Brown of Haddington's notes on Psalm 102 follow:

This psalm relates to some grievous distress; wherein are observable, (1.) Bitter complaints of divine hidings and wrath; of sore bodily troubles; of inward griefs and perplexities; of calumnious reproaches; of sudden changes of condition, and of apparent nearness to death, ver. 1-11. (2.) Seasonable comforts against these grievances, arising from the eternity and unchangeableness of God, ver. 13, 24, 27; and from the deliverances, spread, and establishment he will grant to his church, in answer to the prayers, and for the comfort of his afflicted people, ver. 13-28.

While I sing, think, my soul, if I am exercised by my troubles; if these of the inner man bear heaviest on my heart; and if I am a cordial partaker with Zion in her joys and griefs.

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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