Psalm Singing – April 2025

The Psalms are blessed chapters in a blessed book of Psalms in a blessed book, the Bible! Sue and I like singing them, and hope someday these recordings will help others do that as well, which is why we do these.

And with that, we finished all of Psalm 119 — 119M-119X, from our psalter.

A little note on this one: The last one, X, is written partially in a 4-part round, with the tenor part being the melody, so Sue and I did that first together (we both did it to try to make sure the melody came out), and then Sue did the alto part, I then made my sad attempt at the bass part (we had to bump the key up a couple of times just so I could hit the low note when it came up twice), and then Sue did the soprano part. And so, it’s a bit different than the others, and musically, it was a little extra fun. 🙂

But without further ado, here they are:

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Once again, this Psalm focuses much on loving God’s law, statues, and commandments, and the desire to obey them.

Loving God and obeying Him are directly tied together.

Christ said:

John 14:15 – “If ye love me, keep my commandments.“

John 14:21 – “He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.“

John 15:10 – “If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.“

And John said:

1 John 5:2-3 – “2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.“

Our church has been going through Psalm 119 in our Sunday School time, and they’re on SermonAudio as a series, if you might be interested.

Again, may the Lord grant us that desire and obedience, and may we love His commandments because they come from Him, the One whom we love!

Psalm 119:171 – “My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.“

— David

Previous Psalms singings: