The Trinity Psalter Hymnal
One-Year Plan
This is a guide to singing through the Psalms in one year.
In the Trinity Psalter Hymnal, some of the Psalms have only one setting (e.g., Psalm 3), and have no additional designation. For those Psalms with more than one setting, the first setting is a full Psalm, designated as “A” (e.g., Psalm 1A); additional settings may also be full. However, Psalm 119 is an exception. It has 22 distinct sections, and the alphabetical designations (A through V) correspond to those sections. Full Psalm settings include verse numbers with the text. The partial or paraphrased Psalms are indicated at the end of the setting. Including the 22 sections of Psalm 119, there are at least 171 full settings in the Trinity Psalter Hymnal.
Below is a one-year plan (in 52 weeks) that groups together, according to length, the full Psalm settings as evenly as possible. In weeks with five or six Psalms, you can sing one each day of the week, Monday through Friday or Saturday, then on the following Sunday you can re-sing two or three in the morning, and two or three in the evening. In weeks with fewer but longer Psalms, you can divide the total number of stanzas (e.g., by 5 or 6) and sing a portion each day of the week (and re-sing them all on Sunday). In this way, you'll sing through the entire Psalms twice each year.
Links to Hymnary for texts, sheet music, tunes audio, and videos at URCpsalmody.
Links to tunes audio also at ChristReformedDC.
See also http://trinitypsalterhymnal.org
week 1 : Psalms 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
week 2 : Psalms 6, 7, 8, 9
week 3 : Psalms 10, 11, 12, 13
week 4 : Psalms 14, 15, 16, 17
week 5 : Psalm 18
week 6 : Psalms 19, 20, 21
week 7 : Psalms 22, 23, 24
week 8 : Psalms 25, 26, 27
week 9 : Psalms 28, 29, 30
week 10 : Psalms 31, 32, 33
week 11 : Psalms 34, 35
week 12 : Psalms 36, 37
week 13 : Psalms 38, 39, 40
week 14 : Psalms 41, 42, 43, 44
week 15 : Psalms 45, 46, 47, 48, 49
week 16 : Psalms 50, 51, 52
week 17 : Psalms 53, 54, 55, 56, 57
week 18 : Psalms 58, 59, 60, 61
week 19 : Psalms 62, 63, 64, 65
week 20 : Psalms 66, 67, 68
week 21 : Psalms 69, 70
week 22 : Psalms 71, 72
week 23 : Psalms 73, 74
week 24 : Psalms 75, 76, 77
week 25 : Psalm 78
week 26 : Psalms 79, 80, 81, 82
week 27 : Psalms 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88
week 28 : Psalm 89
week 29 : Psalms 90, 91, 92
week 30 : Psalms 93, 94, 95, 96
week 31 : Psalms 97, 98, 99, 100, 101
week 32 : Psalms 102, 103
week 33 : Psalm 104
week 34 : Psalm 105
week 35 : Psalm 106
week 36 : Psalms 107, 108
week 37 : Psalms 109, 110, 111
week 38 : Psalms 112, 113, 114, 115
week 39 : Psalms 116, 117, 118
week 40 : Psalm 119 A, B, C, D, E, F
week 41 : Psalm 119 G, H, I, J, K, L
week 42 : Psalm 119 M, N, O, P, Q, R
week 43 : Psalms 119 S, T, U, V, 120, 121
week 44 : Psalms 122, 123, 124, 125, 126
week 45 : Psalms 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132
week 46 : Psalms 133, 134, 135
week 47 : Psalms 136, 137
week 48 : Psalms 138, 139, 140
week 49 : Psalms 141, 142, 143
week 50 : Psalms 144, 145
week 51 : Psalms 146, 147
week 52 : Psalms 148, 149, 150
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Additional Resources
Why Sing All 150 Psalms? by Peter Wallace: https://www.opc.org/nh.html?article_id=809
Bible Project Intro to The Psalms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpny22k_7uk
Bible Project (more detailed) Overview of The Psalms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9phNEaPrv8
Learning to Love The Psalms by W. Robert Godfrey: [wscal] [rhbooks] [amzn]
Interview with author (audio): Office Hours
Conference presentation (video): Ligonier
12-part series (video): Ligonier
Eschatology of the Psalter by Geerhardus Vos: [html] [pdf]
1650 Psalter with notes by John Brown of Haddington: https://thewestminsterstandard.org/1650-scottish-metrical-psalter
1650 Psalter congregational recordings: https://www.christcovenantrpc.org/audio/psalm-singing
Genevan Psalter (c. 1562) text and tunes: http://www.genevanpsalter.com/music-a-lyrics
a note on the use of imprecation / imprecatory psalms in the new covenant:
" We believe that Christ is present in all Scripture and certainly in the Psalms, even the imprecatory psalms. In those, our Lord Jesus Christ in his own person, particularly at the cross, receives God’s wrath against us for our sin and, in and by the gospel, makes many former enemies to be friends. (In this way, his enemies are vanquished even as Israel often pleaded for their defeat.) "
~Alan Strange
" 'Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, ‘Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord’ ' (Rom. 12:19). In other words, Christians should never seek to do anything to curse their enemies, but we should pray that God will bring His vengeance —as in Psalm 94. "
~Peter Wallace
This (imprecation) is also what we pray in the 2nd petition of the Lord's Prayer:
WSC 102. Q. What do we pray for in the second petition?
A. In the second petition, which is, Thy kingdom come, we pray that Satan's kingdom may be destroyed; and that the kingdom of grace may be advanced, ourselves and others brought into it, and kept in it; and that the kingdom of glory may be hastened.
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