Scholars date the final compilation of the Book of Psalms to somewhere between the 5th and 2nd centuries BCE. It is likely ...

Horatius Bonar was a 19th Century Scottish priest. In his day, people tended to sing almost exclusively metrical psalms and so Bonar set out to write a number of simpler hymns, particularly aimed ...

G-d forgive me for speaking evil dignities!’ The Psalm parodies the style of the Presbyterian metrical psalter, and takes as its theme Psalm cxliv, which relates how God gives salvation to kings.

In churches the Psalms were recited or sung in metrical paraphrases. When My song is love unknown (or rather the first, fourth, sixth and seventh of the seven stanzas) was published in The Anglican ...

Others prepared the ground for the emergence of “Amazing Grace.” Isaac Watts released Christian worship from routines of metrical psalm singing with his Hymns and Spiritual Songs of 1707, which ...

Partridge adds: ''The corresponding singular pronoun is no one.'' I also offer verse 3 of the 25th metrical Psalm, viz, Let none that wait on thee be put to shame at all:(which is matched in the ...

Packed full of facts and quotations from an impressively wide and diverse range of sources, the book allows the voices of its witnesses to speak in their own words about the relevance of balladry, ...

But Watts was doing far more than rendering the Psalms into metrical form, or even paraphrasing them, as is made clear in the title of his book The Psalms of David Imitated in the Language of the New ...