Music for Prayer: ‘A pleasant land’ (Psalm 16)

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Image: “Mai Chau Valley paddy field Impression” [cropped] by Neville Wootton via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

"Mai Chau Valley paddy field Impression" [cropped] by Neville Wootton via Flickr (CC BY 2.0) - reminds me of Psalm 16

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This week’s podcast episode once again incorporates the lovely “Dragon Country (Apple & Clove)” by Alexander Westmacott, this time as music “in conversation” with a slow reading of Psalm 16. Thanks to Judy Howard for the feedback about that track and the suggestion to let it play with voiceover.

You probably know this psalm. It’s a great one for reading in the style suggested by the story I tell from Bishop Mark Dyer. There are just so many single-verse gems that it’s nice to be able to pause throughout.

Psalm 16

Book of Common Prayer, Public Domain

1 Protect me, O God, for I take refuge in you; *
I have said to the LORD, “You are my Lord,
my good above all other.”

2 All my delight is upon the godly that are in the land, *
upon those who are noble among the people.

3 But those who run after other gods *
shall have their troubles multiplied.

4 Their libations of blood I will not offer, *
nor take the names of their gods upon my lips.

5 O LORD, you are my portion and my cup; *
it is you who uphold my lot.

6 My boundaries enclose a pleasant land; *
indeed, I have a goodly heritage.

7 I will bless the LORD who gives me counsel; *
my heart teaches me, night after night.

8 I have set the LORD always before me; *
because he is at my right hand I shall not fall.

9 My heart, therefore, is glad, and my spirit rejoices; *
my body also shall rest in hope.

10 For you will not abandon me to the grave, *
nor let your holy one see the Pit.

11 You will show me the path of life; *
in your presence there is fullness of joy,
and in your right hand are pleasures for evermore.

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Praying the Psalms: Engaging Scripture and the Life of the Spirit by Walter Brueggemann

A classic

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