Sep 19 2024 1 mins 1
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Sheet music: https://genevanpsalter.com/files/psalm-102/Psalm_102_Genevan_BoP.pdf
For my days, like smoke, are fleeting;
Each goes by without repeating.
Like a hearth my bones do burn,
While I for Thy answer yearn.
For my heart is so dejected
That my bread I have neglected.
Skin and bones, together cleaving,
Are the outcome of my grieving.
While I lie awake in sorrow,
I am like a lonely sparrow
Perching on the housetop high.
Like the pelican am I,
And the owl; in desolation
Have such birds their habitation.
In my loneliness I languish,
For I suffer constant anguish.
Sung by Michael Owens - For many years he has been pursuing various methods of singing the Psalms, including the through-composed Psalm 119 and Canticles Divine series with Frederick Steinruck. His first passions have always been God and family, with music and pianos a distant second. His work on the Genevan Psalter began in 2003, when a friend gave him a copy of the Cantus Christi.
Music: Genevan Psalter, 1543; harm. Claude Goudimel, 1564
Sheet music: https://genevanpsalter.com/files/psalm-102/Psalm_102_Genevan_BoP.pdf
For my days, like smoke, are fleeting;
Each goes by without repeating.
Like a hearth my bones do burn,
While I for Thy answer yearn.
For my heart is so dejected
That my bread I have neglected.
Skin and bones, together cleaving,
Are the outcome of my grieving.
While I lie awake in sorrow,
I am like a lonely sparrow
Perching on the housetop high.
Like the pelican am I,
And the owl; in desolation
Have such birds their habitation.
In my loneliness I languish,
For I suffer constant anguish.
Sung by Michael Owens - For many years he has been pursuing various methods of singing the Psalms, including the through-composed Psalm 119 and Canticles Divine series with Frederick Steinruck. His first passions have always been God and family, with music and pianos a distant second. His work on the Genevan Psalter began in 2003, when a friend gave him a copy of the Cantus Christi.
Music: Genevan Psalter, 1543; harm. Claude Goudimel, 1564
