The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 14, No. 403, December 5, 1829 by Various
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The version used by the English church in the 5th Psalm is subject to the same observation as on the 4th. The church version is Thou in the morn shall hear my voice And with the dawn of day, To thee devoutly I look up, To thee devoutly pray. Dr. Watts, who gives the Christian meaning of this Psalm, translates or paraphrases thus truly:-- Lord in the morning thou shall hear My voice ascending high, To thee will I direct my pray'r, To thee lift up mine eye. Up to the hills where Christ is gone _To plead for all his Saints_, Presenting at his father's throne, Our songs and our complaints. Psalmody, or the singing of sacred music, conducted by such a gracious and animated sense of the revealed word of God, must naturally be |
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