Resources for Singing Psalm 42

Johnathan Arnold

October 17, 2024

The psalms are meant to be sung! Read the article “Singing the Psalms: Recovering the Church’s God-Inspired Hymnbook.”

Original Metrical Setting

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Metrical Settings

[Recommended] Seedbed (Tennents) Metrical Psalter with Audio (see also the book) — easily sung by congregations (see the video below)
Genevan Psalter
1650 Scottish Metrical Psalter
Scottish Metrical Psalter, Psalm 42:1–4
Trinity Psalter Hymnal, stanzas 1, 2, 5

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
Theopolis Liturgy and Psalter
Psalm 42, Gregorian chant (Tone 2, monasticus)
Glenstal Abbey
Turle Chant, King’s College Cambridge

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Johnathan Arnold

Johnathan is a husband and father, pastor of Redeemer Wesleyan Church, global trainer with Shepherds Global Classroom, and founder of holyjoys.org. He is the author of The Kids' Catechism and The Whole Counsel of God: A Protestant Catechism and Discipleship Handbook (forthcoming). Johnathan has also been published in Firebrand Magazine, the Arminian Magazine, God’s Revivalist, and the Bible Methodist Magazine.

Resources for Singing Psalm 42

Original Metrical Setting

Metrical Settings

Chants

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