Category: Psalms-English
Learn to play and sing the Psalms of the Huguenots with melodies from the Protestant Reformation
The video was taken from a tour boat from St. Johns Newfoundland in June 2025. It is set to the music of an old Dutch Hymn that was recently translated into English.
It’s a simple beautiful melody, but the words are poignantly true and touch the very depths of our human frailty.
Embracing the wonderful reality and the unspeakable comfort we have by faith in Christ Jesus the LORD and Creator of all things.
This is a rhymed metrical interpretation of verses 1-5 of Psalm 66 played in an alternate Open-D Tuning
Produced by Psalms101.ca © 2025 Musical arrangement, multi-media, guitar & synthesizer by RieseH
Learn to play this 1551 melody at an intermediate level transposed to be played in Em at the 5th fret using a Capo. More transcriptions can be freely found at Psalms101.ca as they are made available.
This was the easiest method I found to play this particular Psalm melody without too much finger gymnastics.
“Israel’s history has become our history. We are part of the one people of God and the psalms of Jerusalem and Zion are fully ours.
Psalm 48 is not the local history of a little city, but it has significance for the ends of the earth. Indeed, we can appreciate this psalm and all of the Old Testament in a way that the old covenant people could not.
They had the promise; we have the fulfillment. They had the sons of Korah who wrote this psalm; we have Jesus who fulfilled this psalm.
They sang in praise of the earthly Jerusalem; we sing in praise of the heavenly Jerusalem.”
Godfrey, W. Robert. Learning to Love the Psalms (p. 101).
“Psalm 118:17 was the verse that Martin Luther took as a motto for his life: “I shall not die, but I shall live, and recount the deeds of the LORD.” It comforted him when his life was threatened and it reminded him of his calling to preach the gospel faithfully.”
“Psalm 118 concludes the Egyptian Hallel with words full of praise and celebration for God’s blessing upon His people. It is above all a psalm of thanksgiving, beginning and ending with the words, “Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!” (v. 29).”
“At the end of their last Passover and their first Lord’s Supper, Jesus and His disciples sang together.
We read: “And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives” (Matt. 26:30). Since Psalm 118 was the last of the Passover psalms, we can be quite sure that the song Jesus and the disciples sang was Psalm 118. Jesus once again identifies with this psalm. He is the Passover; He is the King; He is the salvation from the house of bondage; He is the sacrifice on the altar. All the great themes of the Old Testament and of this psalm come together in Jesus.”
Godfrey, W. Robert. Learning to Love the Psalms