North Uist and Grimsay
Free Church of Scotland
(Continuing)
psalms
The singing of psalms is a part of the worship which God has appointed, both in the church and in the family. The Book of Psalms is rich in doctrine and experience and ought to be our only manual of praise, being sung with grace in the heart and without the accompaniment of instrumental music.
This page contains the text of the 1650 Scottish Metrical Version of the Psalms which is the version we use in our services. At the head of each psalm are the names of the tunes suggested for that psalm in the The Scottish Psalmody published by the Free Church of Scotland in 1990. Audio files of the tunes are located at the appropriate places alongside the text of the psalm so that the tunes can be listened to and learned online. Some of the audio files are by kind permission of Faith Presbyterian Church Reformed of Mesquite, Texas, USA; their website is at www.fpcr.org. We are also grateful to Mr Ruairidh MacLeod of the Aberdeen Congregation for providing some of the other audio files.
To listen to all the psalm tunes contained in The Scottish Psalmody click here.
