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    The Psalter for Christian Worship, Revised Edition
    The Psalter for Christian Worship, Revised Edition
    The Psalter for Christian Worship, Revised Edition
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    The Psalter for Christian Worship, Revised Edition

    By Allan Mitchell

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    We lift up the psalms to God as our prayers. We borrow the language of these ancient texts, and they become our works. We are not secondhand recipients of Gods word but communicants actively in conversation with God. What seems to set the Psalms apart from the rest of Scripture is their sacramental nature, their unique ability to mold and transform the believer. The Psalter for Christian Worshipreclaims the Psalms for congregational worship with new texts set to familiar hymnal tunes. This collection, for worship leaders, musicians, and congregations, will inspire both corporate and private devotions.Features include: The Old Testament flavor of the Psalter is retained with new sensitivity to imagery and inclusive language; all 150 psalms have been converted into hymns of reasonable length to be sung in church; an index of suggested hymn tunes is included; and an index for liturgical use is also provided.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestminster John Knox Press
    Release dateAug 13, 2019
    ISBN9781611649406
    The Psalter for Christian Worship, Revised Edition
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    Allan Mitchell

    Allan Mitchell (1933-2016) received his PhD from Harvard in 1961 and then taught at Smith College (1961-1972) and the University of California (1973-1993). He was the author of The Great Train Race: Railways and the Franco-German Rivalry, 1815-1914 (Berghahn Books, 2006); Rêves Parisiens. L’échec de projets de transport public en France aux XIXe siècle (Ponts et Chaussées, Paris, 2005); and A Stranger in Paris: Germany’s Role in Republican France, 1870-1940 (Berghahn Books, 2006).

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      The Psalter for Christian Worship, Revised Edition - Allan Mitchell

      The Psalter for Christian Worship

      Revised Edition

      The Psalter for Christian Worship

      Revised Edition

      Michael Morgan

      © 2010 Michael Morgan

      Originally published as The Psalter for Christian Worship, Revised Edition in 2010 by Witherspoon Press, Louisville, Kentucky.

      2019 edition

      Published by Westminster John Knox Press

      Louisville, Kentucky

      19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28—10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Westminster John Knox Press, 100 Witherspoon Street, Louisville, Kentucky 40202-1396. Or contact us online at www.wjkbooks.com.

      Permission to reprint texts in worship bulletins is granted. The following attribution must accompany the reprinted texts: From The Psalter for Christian Worship. © 2010 Michael Morgan. Used by permission of Westminster John Knox Press.

      Every effort has been made to trace copyrights on the materials included in this book. If any copyrighted material has nevertheless been included without permission and due acknowledgment, proper credit will be inserted in future printings after notice has been received.

      Book design by Jeanne Williams

      Cover design by Allison Taylor

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Morgan, Michael, 1948- author.

      Title: The Psalter for Christian worship / Michael Morgan.

      Description: Revised edition. | Louisville, Kentucky : Westminster John Knox Press, 2019. | Originally published as The Psalter for Christian Worship, Revised Edition in 2010 by Witherspoon Press, Louisville, Kentucky.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2019021674 (print) | LCCN 2019981532 (ebook) | ISBN 9780664265410 (paperback) | ISBN 9781611649406 (ebook)

      Subjects: LCSH: Reformed Church--Liturgy--Texts. | Psalters--Texts.

      Classification: LCC BX9427.5.P74 M67 2019 (print) | LCC BX9427.5.P74 (ebook) | DDC 264/.05137015--dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019021674

      LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019981532

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      To the worshiping communities of

      Central Presbyterian Church and

      Columbia Theological Seminary,

      and to all who would find in these pages

      words to frame their prayers and praise.

      Contents

      Preface

      Introduction

      The Psalms

      Book I

      Psalm 1

      Psalm 2

      Psalm 3

      Psalm 4

      Psalm 5

      Psalm 6

      Psalm 7

      Psalm 8

      Psalm 9

      Psalm 10

      Psalm 11

      Psalm 12

      Psalm 13

      Psalm 14

      Psalm 15

      Psalm 16

      Psalm 17

      Psalm 18

      Psalm 19

      Psalm 20

      Psalm 21

      Psalm 22a

      Psalm 22b

      Psalm 23

      Psalm 24

      Psalm 25

      Psalm 26

      Psalm 27

      Psalm 28

      Psalm 29

      Psalm 30

      Psalm 31a

      Psalm 31b

      Psalm 32

      Psalm 33

      Psalm 34

      Psalm 35

      Psalm 36

      Psalm 37

      Psalm 38

      Psalm 39

      Psalm 40

      Psalm 41

      Book II

      Psalm 42

      Psalm 43

      Psalm 44

      Psalm 45a

      Psalm 45b

      Psalm 46

      Psalm 47

      Psalm 48

      Psalm 49

      Psalm 50

      Psalm 51

      Psalm 52

      Psalm 53

      Psalm 54

      Psalm 55

      Psalm 56

      Psalm 57

      Psalm 58

      Psalm 59

      Psalm 60

      Psalm 61

      Psalm 62

      Psalm 63

      Psalm 64

      Psalm 65

      Psalm 66a

      Psalm 66b

      Psalm 67

      Psalm 68

      Psalm 69

      Psalm 70

      Psalm 71

      Psalm 72

      Book III

      Psalm 73

      Psalm 74

      Psalm 75

      Psalm 76

      Psalm 77

      Psalm 78

      Psalm 79

      Psalm 80

      Psalm 81

      Psalm 82

      Psalm 83

      Psalm 84

      Psalm 85

      Psalm 86

      Psalm 87

      Psalm 88

      Psalm 89a

      Psalm 89b

      Book IV

      Psalm 90

      Psalm 91

      Psalm 92

      Psalm 93

      Psalm 94

      Psalm 95

      Psalm 96

      Psalm 97

      Psalm 98

      Psalm 99

      Psalm 100

      Psalm 101

      Psalm 102

      Psalm 103

      Psalm 104a

      Psalm 104b

      Psalm 105a

      Psalm 105b

      Psalm 106

      Book V

      Psalm 107

      Psalm 108

      Psalm 109

      Psalm 110

      Psalm 111

      Psalm 112

      Psalm 113

      Psalm 114

      Psalm 115

      Psalm 116

      Psalm 117

      Psalm 118

      Psalm 119a

      Psalm 119b

      Psalm 119c

      Psalm 119d

      Psalm 119e

      Psalm 119f

      Psalm 119g

      Psalm 120

      Psalm 121

      Psalm 122

      Psalm 123

      Psalm 124

      Psalm 125

      Psalm 126

      Psalm 127

      Psalm 128

      Psalm 129

      Psalm 130

      Psalm 131

      Psalm 132

      Psalm 133

      Psalm 134

      Psalm 135

      Psalm 136

      Psalm 137

      Psalm 138

      Psalm 139

      Psalm 140

      Psalm 141

      Psalm 142

      Psalm 143

      Psalm 144

      Psalm 145

      Psalm 146

      Psalm 147a

      Psalm 147b

      Psalm 148

      Psalm 149

      Psalm 150

      Index of Psalms for Liturgical Use

      Preface

      The psalm paraphrases in this collection were composed during the spring and summer of 1995 for the congregation of Central Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, Georgia.

      As part of our congregation’s desire to reclaim metrical psalm singing, which is at the heart of our Reformed tradition, Dr. Theodore Wardlaw challenged me to write new Editions of the Lectionary psalms for Eastertide. The worshipers at Central Church have a strong attachment to congregational song, and with their encouragement, I composed settings of all 150 psalms. These psalter hymns were designed to be sung to a variety of tunes that our congregation knew from memory, making them readily accessible.

      Never before had I embarked on such a meaningful and self-illuminating devotional exercise. I repeatedly found my life experience reflected in the psalms on which I worked. Often, I would struggle with a particular psalm with little insight or inspiration, and in frustration turn to another, where the words would flow almost as quickly as I could write. Sometimes the first line to come to me would be halfway down the page, and the text would grow from there in both directions until the psalm was complete.

      My parameters were defined from the beginning:

      1. Make the texts suitable for congregational singing. The approach to each text was the same: to condense thought and repetition into single units, paraphrasing those to achieve the sense of the psalm. I sought help in commentaries and devotionals from Calvin and Horne, to Dahood and Brueggemann. Where the Revised Common Lectionary abbreviated the texts or divided the longer psalms, I considered the same alignment in my edition.

      2. Remain faithful to the character of the psalms. I have sought not to Christianize the psalms, but to balance images and allusions from both sides of the cross (Hebrew poet and the Messiah of the Gospels, the shepherd boy and the Good Shepherd), tempering judgment with justice and vengeance with grace.

      3. Employ modern English language. In the first edition, a significant number of texts used thee, thou, thy, and thine in reference to God. Even though much of our association with the Psalms is cloaked in this classic style, the texts in this revised edition have been reworded in modern English to make them universal in their appeal to those who

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