O God, the nations have come into Your inheritance; Your temple courts have become filled with filth and fraudulence. The city walls lie crumbled, Your faithful servants humbled – Their blood drained and poured out on the ground! Our friends and neighbours disdain our confidence in You; They boldly think and proclaim spite for the […]
Listen to My Law My people, open wide your door And let the words that I have spoken (Which you’ve often heard before) Be neither like an idle dream, But rather treasured and esteemed, In future generations Of your children evermore. Awake, O Lord, gird Your shield and Your sword; Overtake Your enemies, come magnify […]
I cried to God sincerely When fear confronted me; Both hands in prayer were pleading And wrestling ceaselessly. Refusing every comfort, My soul to God complained: ‘Behold, my troubled spirit – Cast down and overwhelmed’. My eyelids are held open, For fear I cannot speak. I long for pleasant past times When songs prolonged my […]
In the holy hill of Zion God is known; There the sword and shield of battle He destroyed. More invincible than mountains of renown Are the troops of His right hand He there deployed. All resistance to His sovereign reign and rule He has overthrown and cast into a heap; Man in wisdom manifestly is […]
The mighty hand of providence And wonders of His ways, Declare to us His name is near In glorious displays; With tender hearts then render thanks With songs and psalms of praise! The earth and its inhabitants Will surely in due course Be subject to God’s holy fire And reel beneath its force; Then Christ […]
O God for mercy’s sake arise Come plead the noble cause of Christ, Regard the bitter words of tyranny And cruel scorn they speak; For saints beguiled by hellish lies Remove the blindness of their eyes, Then vindicate in all the earth The ones whose lives and daily talk are truly meek. Shall we forever […]
The God of Jacob blesses The pure in heart for sure. Yet strangely I was jealous When looking round I saw The godless full-contented With treasures at their side; Their idle talk and wayward walk Betrayed both peace and pride. In life their strength is certain In death they are at ease, They rarely suffer […]
A new Psalter for the 21st Century. The Psalms represent the Bible's own library of songs specifically written to be sung as part of private and corporate worship. It is my sincere prayer and desire that this new collection of psalms might serve to refresh, restore, challenge, encourage and edify Christians of all lands, cultures and backgrounds.
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