Singing through the Psalms, part IV

Part I [Psalms 1-25].


Part II [Psalms 26-50].


Part III [Psalms 51-75].


Part IV [Psalms 76-100]:  A mashup of Catholic responsorial psalms, camp songs, 70's praise music, and Matt Redman.


Psalm 81:1:  "Sing for joy to God our strength"

Sing for joy to God our strength

~Don Moen, "Sing for Joy"

Psalm 81:16:  "But I would feed you with the finest of the wheat"

You satisfy the hungry heart

With gift of finest wheat

~John Michael Talbot, "Gift of Finest Wheat"

Psalm 84:1-2, 10:  "How lovely are Your dwelling places, / O LORD of hosts! / My soul longed and even yearned for the courts of the LORD; / My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God...For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand outside."  

How lovely is Your dwelling place

O Lord Almighty

For my soul longs and even faints for You...

Better is one day in Your courts

Than thousands elsewhere...

My heart and flesh cry out

For You, the living God

~Matt Redman, "Better Is One Day"

Psalm 91:1-2, 4-5, 11-12:  "He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High / Will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. / I will say to the LORD, 'My refuge and my fortress, / My God, in whom I trust!'...He will cover you with His pinions, / And under His wings you may seek refuge; / His faithfulness is a shield and bulwark. / You will not be afraid of the terror by night, / Or of the arrow that flies by day...For He will give His angels charge concerning you, / To guard you in all your ways. / They will bear you up in their hands, / That you do not strike your foot against a stone."

You who dwell in the shelter of the Lord

Who abide in His shadow for life

Say to the Lord, "My refuge

My Rock in Whom I trust."

You need not fear the terror of the night

Nor the arrow that flies by day

Under His wings your refuge

His faithfulness your shield

For to His angels He's given a command

To guard you in all of your ways

Upon their hands they will bear you up

Lest you dash your foot against a stone

~Michael Crawford, "On Eagle's Wings"

Psalm 95:1-2, 6-9:  "O come, let us sing for joy to the LORD, / Let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation. / Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving, / Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms...Come, let us worship and bow down, / Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. / For He is our God, / And we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand. / Today, if you would hear His voice, / Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, / As in the day of Massah in the wilderness, / 'When your fathers tested Me, / They tried Me, though they had seen My work.'" 

If today you hear His voice, harden not your hearts.

Come, let us sing joyfully to the LORD;

let us acclaim the Rock of our salvation.

Let us come into His presence with thanksgiving;

let us joyfully sing psalms to Him.

Come, let us bow down in worship;

let us kneel before the LORD Who made us.

For He is our God,

and we are the people He shepherds, the flock He guides.

Oh, that today you would hear His voice:

"Harden not your hearts as at Meribah,

as in the day of Massah in the desert,

Where your fathers tempted Me;

they tested Me though they had seen My works."

~David Haas, "If Today You Hear His Voice"

Come let us worship and bow down

Let us kneel before the Lord

Our God our Maker

For He is our God

And we are the people of His pasture

And the sheep of His hand

~Dave Doherty, "Come Let Us Worship and Bow Down"

Psalm 100:2-4:  "Serve the LORD with gladness / Come before Him with joyful singing...It is He Who has made us, and not we ourselves...Enter His gates with thanksgiving / And His courts with praise."

I will enter His gates with thanksgiving in my heart

I will enter His courts with praise

I will say this is the day that the Lord has made

I will rejoice for He has made me glad

~Leona Von Brethorst, "I Will Enter His Gates"


[Side note: an interesting little bio here about Leona Von Brethorst.]

- Psalm 91:11-12 ("For He will give His angels charge concerning you, / To guard you in all your ways. / They will bear you up in their hands, / That you do not strike your foot against a stone.") will be familiar to anyone who has read the temptation of Jesus in Matthew 4:6 and Luke 4:10-11.

- Psalm 95:11 ("Therefore I swore in My anger, / Truly they shall not enter into My rest.") is quoted in Hebrews 4:3, 5.

Stay tuned for parts V and VI of the Psalm series.  I'm amazed both at the richness of this sacred book...and how much memory is in my brain, after all.