The psalms are meant to be sung! Read the article “Singing the Psalms: Recovering the Church’s God-Inspired Hymnbook.”
Original Metrical Setting
Sing to the tune New Britain (Amazing Grace). Alternatively, St. Anne (O God, Our Help in Ages Past) may be used. Sung Year A, Second Sunday in Lent. This psalm celebrates the continual help, protection, and preservation that God gives to the Church. It is fulfilled by Jesus Christ, to whom we lift up our eyes and receive salvation from all evil.
I lift my eyes up to the hills.
From where does my help come?
My help comes from the Lord who made
The heavens and the earth.
He will not let your foot be moved;
His watch o’er you he’ll keep.
The God who watches Israel
Will never slumber, sleep.
The Lord’s your shade on your right hand,
The Lord your keeper is;
The sun shall not strike you by day,
The moon won’t harm by night.
From all evil the Lord will keep,
He’ll guard your very life,
Your going out and coming in
Both now and evermore.
Through Christ who died on Zion’s hill,
The Lord has sent us help.
In Christ secure, he keeps our life,
And from all evil saves.
Glory be to the Father, and
Glory be to the Son;
Glory be to the Holy Ghost,
The blessed three in one.
Metrical Settings
- [Recommended] Seedbed (Tennents) Metrical Psalter with Audio (see also the book)
- The 1650 Metrical Psalter with Audio
Chants
- [Recommended] St. Bernard Breviary — the Daily Office of the 2019 BCP with simple chant tones; see the “Chant Helps” page of the Breviary website with an audio example of Psalms 120–125 being chanted
- Theopolis Liturgy and Psalter (book)
