How can the way of youth be pure

The older metrical Psalters aim to put the complete Psalm into metre, selecting one or more parts for use at one time. So, for that matter, does Clarence Walhout with his 22 six-line stanzas published in 1980, Blessed are those who heed the law of God. One of the traditional approaches is the 1912 Psalter, used several times in Praise! from 46A onwards. This is the first of two extracts from its 119th Psalm (see also 119F), which has been revised for the present book. With two main approaches before them, members of the editorial group preferred this newer (1997) revision to ‘How shall the young direct their way?/ What light shall be their perfect guide? …’, which seemed to have more problems. Among the varied vocabulary for the Scriptures, this text includes word, decrees, law/s, (each coming twice), precepts and promises. The tune POYNTON, composed by Catherine M Motyer Lowndes in the 1990s, is published here for the first time. It is named after her home town of Poynton, near Stockport in Ches.

A notable landmark in the line of Scottish metrical Psalters beginning with the classic 1650 collection, which remained unchallenged for nearly a century until revisions began in 1745; the 1912 book was the last significant one of its kind before Sing Psalms qv. Nos.46A, 87, 93, 94, 111, 119C, 119F, 135, 140.