Psalm #150
(in praise of a painting)
Trumpet and timbrel,
stringed instruments and organs,
psaltery and dance.
Breathe everything that hath breath.
Breathe excellence, breathe praise.
Psalm #33
(An importuned song)
Sing! Sing a new song.
Sing loudly, play skillfully.
Play! Play on the harp.
Sing! Sing with the Psaltery,
Instruments, those with ten strings.
Psalm #47
(a real song)
Clap, clap, clap your hands.
Sing your praise. Sing your praises.
Sound the trumpet. Sound!
Clap your hands. Sing your praises.
Clap! Sing! Sound the trumpet! Shout!!
Psalm #57
(a song for troubadors)
Awake harp and lyre,
we will sing, make melody,
awaken the dawn.
Singing among the peoples,
speaking among the nations.
Psalm #45
(a song for poets)
My tongue like a pen,
the pen of a ready scribe.
My heart overflows,
o'erflows with a goodly theme.
My verses addressed to kings.
Psalm #148
(everybody sing)
Ye dragons and deeps,
fire and hail, snow and vapours,
storm fulfilling wind,
mountains, beasts and creeping things,
Earth kings, judges, peoples - praise!
Psalm #117
( ein kleine praise musik)
Praise all ye nations,
praise, praise, all ye peoples praise.
Oh praise ye your Lord.
Praise for merciful kindness
and for truth that aye endures.
Psalm #60
(a song of patriotism)
Fling out the banner
let it float, skyward, seaward
soaring high and wide.
Sunlight strikes it's shining folds,
symbols of our love and pride.
Psalm #68
(song for the big parade)
Singers went before
players followed afterward
damsels danced among.
There is little Benjamin
a ruler among rulers
Psalm #98
( a song for symphonics)
Sing a new song.
All earth make a joyful noise.
Sing psalms, sing with harp
with cornet and trumpet.
Let seas roar, floods clap their hands.
Psalm #100
(a song of joy)
Make a joyful noise
serve with joy and gladness,
enter gates with praise.
Give thanks for truth endureth
throughout all generations.
Psalm #100
( a new song of joy)
Make a happy sound.
Beat it Dad, eight to the bar,
Doodah Doodah Dah.
Choice and righteous right on brah
Roots man, roots is where its found.
Psalm #95
( a thanksgiving song)
Oh,come let us sing
of our rock of salvation.
All of us present;
let us come with thanksgiving
making joyful noise with psalms.
Psalm 126
(a gospel hymn)
Bringing in the sheaves
Oh, we shall come rejoicing
Bringing in the sheaves.
Yes, we shall come rejoicing
(once more) bringing in the sheaves.
Psalm #29
(a test for singers)
Oh majestic voice,
thunder upon the waters,
splitting the cedars,
shaking the vast wilderness,
causing pregnant hinds to calve.
Psalm #30
(Joy cometh in the morning)
Joy in the morning,
saved from the pit, kept alive,
brought up from the grave.
My mourning turned to dancing,
sack cloth to girdled gladness.
Psalm #67
(a song for the World Health Organization)
Be merciful,bless,
Make thy face shine upon us.
For people praise thee -
that thy way is known on earth
thy saving health to nations
Psalm #84
(a song for a new society)
Heart flesh sing for joy.
How lovely our dwelling place.
My soul longs, yea faints
for our nests, our homes, our courts.
Blest are they that dwell therein.
Psalm #87
(a song for a new institute)
New establishment,
foundation in the mountain.
Count as you write that
glorious things were spoken,
this man and that man were there.
Psalm #90
( a song for a new home)
Establish the work,
our work, the work of our hands,
establish thou it.
Unless our love builds the house
we labor in vain who build.
Psalm #85
(song for a commune)
Truth springs from the earth
righteousness rains from heaven
mercy, peace, revive.
mercy, truth have met together
peace and righteousness have kissed.
Psalm #110
(a song for a time)
In days of power
and beauty of holiness,
the people willing;
from the womb of the morning
springs forth the dew of thy youth.
Psalm #96
( a song of beauty)
Beauty, glory, strength
and majesty and honour
a sanctuary.
Righteousness and truth become
the beauty of holiness.
Psalm #126
(a song of tax rebates)
As those in a dream,
we who sowed in tears, reap joy.
Our fortunes restored,
our mouth is filled with laughter
and our tongues do shout with glee.
Psalm #104
(a song of Hawaii)
Oil makes the face shine.
Wine makes glad the heart of man,
herbs for his service,
bread, which strengtheneth the heart.
Young lions roar for meat.
Psalm #16
(a song of contentment)
Joy has been my cup
and pleasure is my portion;
heart and health secure
My soul ne'er been sent to Hell
nor have I seen corruption.
Psalm #75
(a drinking song)
In the hand a cup,
in the cup the wine is red,
mixtures, flowing full.
Some drink up, some drink it down.
Drink the vintage, drink the dregs.
Psalm #46
(a song for a sea based society)
Though the earth be moved,
though mountains sink in the sea,
though the waters roar,
behold there is a river
and it's streams shall make us glad.
Psalm #91
(a song for travellers)
Fear not nights terror,
pestilence, arrows by day,
destruction at noon.
Angels have charge over thee.
Dash not thy foot against stones.
Psalm #121
(a song for travellers)
Lift eyes to the hills.
The sun shall not smite by day
nor the moon by night.
The Lord shall preserve thy soul
going out and coming in.