Sing the Scriptures

2009-03-11T12:56:00.000-07:00

Adapted from Psalm 119:73-80 Y Yodh (NASB)
(Tune: O I'd Rather...lollipop")

Your hands made me
and fashioned me;
Giving me understanding,
that I may learn Your commandments.
May those who fear You
see me
and be glad,
‘cause I wait
for Your word.

I know, O LORD,
Your laws are righteousness,
and that in faithfulness You have
afflicted me.
O may Your
lovingkindness
comfort me

According to Your word to me,
May Your compassion come to me
that I may live, for Your law is
my delight.
May the boastful
be ashamed,
for their lie

But I shall think on Your precepts.
May those who fear You turn to me,
Even those who know Your testimonies.
May my heart
be blameless
in Your law,
So I will
Not be ashamed.

2009-01-29T12:25:00.000-08:00

Adapted from Psalm 119:65-72 Teth (NASB)
(Tune: "Heart and Soul"/"Boom-day-a-da")

(Verse 1)
You have dealt (c-c-c)
well with Your servant,
O-O LORD, (e-e-e)
according to Your word.
Teach (g)
me (c)
good judgment and truth (a-g-f-e-d)

(Verse 2)
I believe (c-c-c)
Your commandments.
Before I (e-e-e)
was afflicted
I (g)
went (c)
astray, But now I (a-g-f-e-d)

(Refrain: music of "Boom-day-a-da" 2 times)
keep Your word.
You are good,
and do good;

Teach me Your statutes.
The proud
have forged a lie,

(Verse 3)
I will keep (c-c-c)
Your precepts with
my whole heart. (e-e-e)
Their heart is fat as grease,
But (g)
I (c)
delight in Your law. (a-g-f-e-d)

(Verse 4)
It is good (c-c-c)
for me that I have been
afflicted, (e-e-e)
That I may learn Your
sta- (g)
tutes. (c)
The law of Your mouth (a-g-f-e-d)

(Refrain)
is better to me
Than thou-
sands of coins

better to me
than coins of
gold and silver. (g-a-b-middle c)

2008-10-13T06:28:00.000-07:00

Adapted from Psalm 119:57-64 Heth (NIV)
(Tune: “Yankee Doodle Dandy”)

You are my portion, O LORD;
I have promised to obey
I seek Your face with all my heart;
be gracious as Your promised.

I have considered my ways
turned my steps to Your truth
I will hasten and not delay
to obey Your commands.

Though the wicked bind me with ropes,
I’ll not forget Your law.
At midnight I rise to give You
thanks for Your righteous laws.

I’m a friend with those who fear You,
we follow Your precepts.
The earth is filled with Your love,
O LORD; teach me your decrees.

2008-07-10T18:24:00.000-07:00

Adapted from Psalm 119:49-56 Zayin (NASB)
(Tune: Daylight Come and Me Wanna Go Home)

Remember the word
to Your servant, You made me hope.
This is my comfort
in my affliction, Your word revived me.

The arrogant utterly deride me,
Yet I do not turn aside from Your law.
I remember Your laws of old,
O LORD, And comfort myself.

Burning indignation
has seized me because of the wicked,
Who forsake Your law.
Your statutes are my songs

In the house of my pilgrimage.
O LORD, I remember Your name in the night,
And keep Your law. This has become mine,
That I observe Your precepts.

2008-07-07T08:50:00.000-07:00

Adapted from Psalm 119:41-48 V Vav. (NASB)
(Tune: "Let There Be Peace on Earth")

May Your unfailing love
also come to me, O LORD,
Your salvation
according to Your word;

So I will have an answer
for him who reproaches me,
For I trust in Your word.
Your truth in my mouth,
do not empty.

For I wait for Your law.
So I will keep Your law
continually,
Forever and ever.

I will walk at liberty,
For I seek Your precepts.
I will speak of Your statues
before kings unashamedly.

I shall delight in Your
commandments, Which I love.
And I shall lift my hands
to Your commands, Which I love;

And I will meditate
on Your statutes.
(Hum the grand finale' while meditating on God's statutes - haha)

2008-05-19T08:02:00.000-07:00

Adapted from Psalm 119:33-40 H He (NASB)
(Tune: "This Land is Your Land")

Teach me, O LORD, the way
of Your statutes,
And I shall keep the way
unto the end.
Give understanding,
so I may follow
Your law to keep with all my heart.

Make me walk in the path
of Your commandments,
For I delight in it
Your holy path.
Incline my heart to
Your testimonies
And not to dishonest gain.

Turn away my eyes
From viewing vanity,
And revive me
in Your ways.
Establish Your word
to Your servant,
Your word makes reverence for You.

Turn away reproach
which I dread,
For Your laws
are good.
Behold, I desire
Your precepts;
Revive me through Your righteousness.

2008-05-18T05:17:00.000-07:00

Adapted from Psalm 119:25-32 Daleth (NASB)
(Tune: Kum Ba Yah)

Make me know the way
of Your law,
So I'll meditate
on Your wonders.
My soul weeps of grief;
Strengthen me
according
to Your word.

Remove the false way
from me,
And graciously
grant Your law.
I have chosen
the faithful way;
I put Your law
before me.

I cling to Your Truth
O LORD,
Do not put me
to shame!
I shall run the way
of Your law,
For You will
enlarge my heart.

2008-05-16T03:46:00.000-07:00

Adapted from Psalm 119:17-24 G Gimel. (NASB)
(Tune: "Dem Dry Bones"/"Alice the Camel")

Deal bountifully with
Your slave,
That I may live and
keep Your word.
Open my eyes, that
I may hold
Wonderful things from Your law.

I am a stranger
in the earth;
Do not hide Your rules
from me.
My soul is crushed with
longing
After Your rules all the time.

You rebuke the arrogant,
the cursed,
Who wander from Your
commands.
Remove reproach and
curse from me,
For I observe Your truth.

Even though princes sit-n-talk
against me,
Your servant meditates on
Your statutes.
Your testimonies also are
my delight;
They are my counselors.

2008-05-15T10:07:00.000-07:00

Adapted from Psalm 119:9-16 Beth (NASB)
(Tune: I’m Bringing Home a Baby Bumbleebee”)

How can a young man keep his way pure?
By keeping it according to Your word.
With all my heart I have sought You;
Don’t let me wander from Your commands.

Your word I have treasured in my heart,
That I may not sin against You.
Blessed are You, O LORD; teach me Your statutes.
Blessed are You. O LORD

With my lips I have told of all
the ordinances of Your mouth.
I have rejoiced in the way of Your truth,
As much as in all riches.

I will meditate on Your precepts
And regard all of Your ways.
I shall delight in Your statutes;
I shall not forget Your word.

2008-05-15T10:03:00.000-07:00

Adapted from Psalm 119:1-8 Aleph
(Tune: “Those Caissons Go Rolling Along”)

How blessed are those whose way is blameless,
Who walk in the law of the LORD.
How blessed are those who observe His truth,
Who seek Him with all their heart.

They also do no unrighteousness;
They walk in His ways.
You have ordained Your precepts,
That we should keep them diligently.

Oh that my ways may be established
To keep Your statutes!
Then I shall not be ashamed
When I look upon all Your commands.

I shall give You thanks with uprightness of heart,
When I learn Your righteous judgments.
I shall keep Your law, Your loving statutes;
Do not forsake me utterly!