New Year Psalm

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Psalm 90 has been considered by many to be an appropriate New Year psalm, and for good reason. It is good to be reminded that our days are few, and that we need to apply our hearts to wisdom. We also need to be reminded of our dependence upon God. Here is a version of it from the 1912 Psalter.

Psalter 246
Tune: Sands

1. O teach Thou us to count our days
And set our hearts on wisdom's ways;
Turn, Lord, to us in our distress,
In pity now Thy servants bless;
Let mercy's dawn dispel our night,
And all our day with joy be bright,
And all our day with joy be bright.

2. O send the day of joy and light,
For long has been our sorrow's night;
Afflicted through the weary years,
We wait until Thy help appears;
With us and with our sons abide,
In us let God be glorified,
In us let God be glorified.

3. So let there be on us bestowed
The beauty of the Lord our God;
The work accomplished by our hand
Establish Thou, and make it stand;
Yea, let our hopeful labor be
Established evermore by Thee,
Established evermore by Thee.

Have a Happy and Blessed New Year!
 
Hmmm...okay...what is a good edition of the Psalter? ...and where is the best place to purchase one?
 
Psalm 90 has been considered by many to be an appropriate New Year psalm, and for good reason. It is good to be reminded that our days are few, and that we need to apply our hearts to wisdom. We also need to be reminded of our dependence upon God. Here is a version of it from the 1912 Psalter.


Thank you and may you also have a blessed New Year.

"So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto
wisdom."—Psalm 90:12


Casting our eyes back upon the year now past and gone, are there no mercies
which claim a note of thankful praise? It is sweet to see the Lord's kind hand
in providence, but sweeter far to view his outstretched hand in grace. Are we
then so unwatchful or so unmindful of the Lord's gracious hand in his
various dealings with our soul as to view the whole past twelve months as a
dead blank in which we have never seen his face, nor heard his voice, nor felt
his power? "Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness?" (Jer
2:31,) the Lord tenderly asks. Has he been such to us also for twelve long and
weary months? What! No help by the way, no tokens for good, no liftings-up
of the light of his countenance, no visitations of his presence and power, no
breakings-in of his goodness for all that long and dreary time—for dreary it
must indeed have been for a living soul to have been left and abandoned of
the Lord so long! If not blessed with any peculiar manifestations of Christ,
with any signal revelations of his Person and work, blood and love, grace and
glory, for such special seasons are not of frequent, occurrence, have we not
still found him the Way, the Truth, and the Life? If we have indeed a
personal and spiritual union with the Son of God, as our living Head, there
will be communications out of his fulness, a supplying of all our need, a
drawing forth of faith, hope, and love, a support under trials, a deliverance
from temptations, a deepening of his fear in the heart, and that continued
work of grace whereby we are enabled to live a life of faith on the Son of
God.
EARS FROM HARVESTED SHEAVES; OR,
DAILY PORTIONS
by Joseph C Philpot
 
Here is another version -- my own favorite song:

O God, the Rock of Ages,
Who evermore hast been,
What time the tempest rages,
Our dwelling-place supreme:
Before Thy first creations,
O Lord, the same as now,
To endless generations,
The Everlasting Thou!

Our years are like the shadows
On sunny hills that lie,
Or grasses in the meadows
That blossom but to die;
A sleep, a dream, a story,
By strangers quickly told;
An unremaining glory
Of things that soon are old.

O thou, who canst not slumber,
Whose light grows never pale,
Teach us aright to number
Our years before they fail.
On us thy mercy lighten;
On us thy goodness rest;
And let thy spirit brighten
The hearts thyself hath blessed.

Lord, crown our faith's endeavor
With beauty and with grace,
Till clothed in light forever,
We see thee face to face.
A joy no language measures;
A fountain brimming o'er;
An endless flow of pleasures;
An ocean without shore.

(E. Bickersteth)
 
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Hmmm...okay...what is a good edition of the Psalter? ...and where is the best place to purchase one?

I'd recommend the 1650 Scottish Psalter, which can be obtained from TBS for about 7 bucks plus some change.

The new RPCNA Psalter is impressive; obtain from Crown and Covenant.

The 1912 UPCNA is still around and republished by some of the Dutch groups. Has lots of familiare tunes; but often over paraphrases some of the Psalms.

The Trinity Psalter published by Great Commission Publishing is words only, and suggests tunes from the Trinity Hymnal.
 
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