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The Psalm singing on this MP3 (digital download) covers Psalm 84:1-2 & 10-12, as sung to the tune Harington from the 1650 Scottish Metrical Psalter.

1    How lovely is thy dwelling-place,

          O Lord of hosts, to me!

      The tabernacles of thy grace

          how pleasant, Lord, they be!

2    My thirsty soul longs veh'mently,

          yea faints, thy courts to see:

      My very heart and flesh cry out,

          O living God, for thee.

10   For in thy courts one day excels

          a thousand; rather in

      My God's house will I keep a door,

          than dwell in tents of sin.

11   For God the Lord's a sun and shield:

          he'll grace and glory give;

      And will withhold no good from them

          that uprightly do live.

12   O thou that art the Lord of hosts,

          that man is truly blest,

      Who by assured confidence

          on thee alone doth rest.

John Brown of Haddington's notes on Psalm 84 follow:

This psalm is much like the 27th, 42nd, 43rd, and 63rd, and may have been composed on the same occasion with the former, when David was banished from Jerusalem by Absalom his son, 2 Sam. 15-16. We have here, (1.) David's ardent affection towards the public ordinances of God, and sense of their happiness who enjoyed them, ver. 1-7, 10. (2.) His heart-burning desire to the God of ordinances, ver. 8-9. (3.) His assured faith of God's kindness, and persuasion of the happiness of such as trust in him, ver. 11-12.

So let my heart cry out for God, the living God. So let me covet earnestly intimate fellowship with him in his ordinances. So let me praise his name, and hold on in his way, till I arrive at the Zion above. So let God be my friend, my protector, my supplier, my store, and the everlasting rock of my rest.

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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