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The Psalm singing on this MP3 (digital download) covers Psalm 147:1-5 as sung to the tune Huddersfield from the 1650 Scottish Metrical Psalter.

1    Praise ye the Lord; for it is good

          praise to our God to sing:

      For it is pleasant, and to praise

          it is a comely thing.

2    God doth build up Jerusalem;

          and he it is alone

      That the dispers'd of Israel

          doth gather into one.

3    Those that are broken in their heart,

          and grieved in their minds,

      He healeth, and their painful wounds

          he tenderly up-binds.

4    He counts the number of the stars;

          he names them ev'ry one.

5    Great is our Lord, and of great pow'r;

          his wisdom search can none.

John Brown of Haddington's notes on Psalm 147 follow:

This psalm was probably penned by David, while he repaired and fortified Jerusalem, 2Sam. 5; and contains, (1.) Solemn calls to praise God, ver. 1, 7, 12, 20. (2.) Weighty reasons for praising God, viz. 1. That, as the God of nature, he is infinitely intelligent and great, and the sovereign manager of all creatures, ver. 4-5, 8-9, 15, 18. 2. As the God of grace, he tenderly comforts, and affectionately delights in his people, ver. 3, 6, 10-11. 3. As the God of Israel, Jerusalem, and Zion, he settles their civil and religious state, ver. 2, 13-14, 19-20.

When God manifests himself in so many things, be ashamed, my soul, that I discern him in so few. O to see God's power and glory in every work of his hand, and especially in every word of his mouth! And to be so affected with what he is, and hath done, and will do, as in every thing to give thanks.

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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