The Psalter - Read, Pray, Sing

[physiocrat]

As a Southern Baptist I am so burnt out on the vapid contemporary music in our services every Sunday. I literally dread the first half of every Sunday morning because of it. Singing the Psalter would be so refreshing!

[catrandy]

Both Iphone and Android have an app for "The book of Psalms for Worship" that includes words only, words with music and also plays the tune for those of us who can't read music.

[CMIKAEL]

Thank you my brother for this video. I watched it a few days ago. I bought “The book of psalms for worship “. I found also many song from this Psalter on Spotify and am able to sing many. What a blessing.

[TheJesusNerd]

Finding these two Psalter hymnals is pretty cool!!!

[lsrkhm]

I recently went to a Woman's Retreat and part of the speakers focus was on singing Scripture and the importance of it. Happy to see this video.

[mkshffr]

I Love, Love, Love it! So much the modern church has lost.

[fnjesusfreak]

I have a copy of the 1990 Presbyterian Hymnal that has a lot of paraphrased psalms for singing. There's also a few from other hymnals I have that I like. A few are classic enough that you'll find them almost anywhere, like "The Lord's my shepherd, I'll not want" (Psalm 23, from the 1650 Scottish Psalter) and William Kethe's "All people that on earth do dwell" (the Old 100th). Isaac Watts did a bunch of more paraphrastic renderings; perhaps the most famous of these is, if you can believe it, "Joy to the World"! Another good one is "I'll praise my Maker while I've breath", based on Psalm 146, and written by Watts and revised by John Wesley - whose favorite hymn it was, set to the old psalm tune "Old 113th".

[AugsburgPilgrim]

Singing and chanting the psalms is a huge part of Protestant worship both at home and at church. Everything from Confessional Lutheranism and Anglicanism to the Puritans and beyond- all of these camps used the psalms in their worship.

The psalter is better than any hymnal or “worship band”!

[bryanharwell]

Thanks for making this video and sharing this information. I've been interested in singing more of the Psalms and this is a way to sing all of them. I'm impressed.

[forrestlong]

I recently purchased a copy of The Psalms Of David, translated from the Septuagint Greek by Donald Sheehan (WIPF and Stock Publishers). I'm really enjoying it as part of my daily devotional reading. I would recommend it.

[kpope]

Just got the Trinity Psalter app. Since I am knew to psalm singing, it will be very helpful to incorporate into my personal devotions.

[matthewbuttner]

Great video, Pastor Matt. In Reformed circles there seems to be a rediscovery of the Psalter but wider evangelicalism would do well to take up and sing! In addition to these fine products, there are several nice editions of the Scottish Psalter available. For those who like KJV English and don't know a lot of tunes, I believe all the psalms in this particular psalter are set in common meter, which means you could sing every one to the tune of Amazing Grace or other very familiar hymns.

[lamperdsfield]

I have the Crossway Psalter in the ESV hardback version and it really is a lovely book

[knyquol]

Wow! I had no idea this was even a thing! Thank you so much I am so excited to order the last as soon we can afford it! Blessings!

[Nagelunther]

We need this so much in Brasil, we still don't have a psalter

[shazzer]

Dear rev, prof Everhard. Where can I listen to some paraphrases? I remember this section of the hymn book being neglected when I was a child. Always intrigued me. Best experience if Psalm singing was in a ‘wee free’ Presbyterian church in the City of London - I was not expecting to stumble across that, but I did! Tuning fork, cantor & off we went. I loved it. Heartfelt, simple & no distraction. I keep mentioning it in my home congregation.

[ghost]

As an Orthodox Christian, who has psalm chanting as a core foundation of every worship service, I am glad to see psalmic prayer being taken up by various protestant traditions

[aaronmathews]

I have the spiral bound large print edition of the Book Of Psalms for Worship

[petermuchko]

I need to get one of these is there a channel on YouTube you would recommend that has it put to music so we can sing it at a house Church Bible study I attend thanks for the video brother

[francsiscog]

I wish our church sung Psalms. I've never really don't it, and didn't even know that it was being sung by some churches until a couple of years ago.

But u must say, as a musician, I wish that they had their own music, and not borrowing from a different song.