The Trinity Psalter Hymnal One-Year Plan

http://sites.google.com/site/tphyearplan/

This is a guide to singing through the Psalms in one year.

The following plan (in 52 weeks) 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

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.



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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:
https://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.

Praying The Lord's Prayer

The Lord’s Prayer, elaborated in 8 parts

based on the Westminster Larger Catechism #178-196

1. Our Father who is in heaven

Heavenly Father, we draw near to You our God with confidence of Your fatherly goodness towards us in Your Son Jesus Christ. With reverence and affection, we express our total dependence on You. Acknowledging Your sovereign power and majesty, by Your Holy Spirit, we are grateful for Your condescending to hear and answer us as we pray according to Your will.

2. Hallowed be Your name

We confess our utter inability and unwillingness of ourselves to honor You rightly. So we pray that You would, by Your grace, enable and incline us to know, love, and glorify You as You have revealed Yourself in Your Word and all Your works. And in all our thinking, speaking, and doing, we pray that by Your Spirit You would prevent and remove our unbelief, ignorance, and disobedience. We pray that by Your providence You would continue to direct all things to Your own glory.

3. May Your kingdom come

We confess that through our own fault we are by nature under the dominion of sin and Satan. So we pray that You would destroy the kingdom of darkness, conquering all Your and our spiritual enemies. We pray that You would advance Your kingdom in this age by the propagation of the gospel everywhere, saving the full number of those You have chosen from among all peoples. Equip Your church with qualified officers, we pray, that Christ’s ordinances would be purely administered and effective in converting unbelievers and strengthening Your people. We pray that You would enable Your church to live peaceably and to patiently endure through all hardships.  Come again soon, we pray, to consummate Your kingdom in the resurrection and new creation, having us reign with You forever.

4. May Your will be done in earth, as it is in heaven

We confess that of ourselves we are prone to rebel against Your Word, to complain against Your providence, and wholly inclined to our own sinful will. So we pray that You would take away all our sinful unwillingness, ignorance, weakness, and our heart’s corruption. We pray that by Your grace You would make us able and willing to know and do Your revealed will in all things. As holy angels obey You, enable us, we pray, to walk according to Your Spirit in all the good works You have prepared for us in a manner that pleases You.

5. Give us this day our daily bread

We confess that because of our sinfulness we do not deserve and cannot earn any of the outward blessings You give in this life. We acknowledge that of themselves they cannot sustain us, and that of ourselves we are prone to use them unlawfully. So we pray that by Your wisdom and tender care, You would provide for our temporal needs. Enable us each day, we pray, in the use of lawful means to enjoy Your free and generous gifts with contentment and gratitude to Your glory.

6. Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors

We confess that we are guilty both of original and actual sin, and are debtors to Your justice. We acknowledge that we cannot make the least satisfaction for that debt. So we pray that of Your free grace, through the obedience and satisfaction of Christ, applied by faith alone, You would acquit us from our guilt and due punishment, and accept us in Your Beloved Son. Continue Your grace to us we pray, grant us repentance, pardon our daily sins, and fill us with peace and joy, giving us each day more and more assurance of Your forgiveness. We pray that You would embolden us to ask for, and encourage us to expect Your forgiveness, while You enable us sincerely to forgive others their offenses.

7. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil

We confess that of ourselves we would seek temptation, and are unable and unwilling to resist or be delivered. Even after Your renewing our hearts, and pardoning our sins, we are still subject to temptations of every sort. So we pray that You would strengthen us against temptation through all means of grace; in Your providence keep us from being tempted to sin; when we are tempted, enable us to resist by Your Spirit; and if we sin, bring us quickly to repentance and greater sanctification. Give us assurance, we pray, of Your guidance and Your promise to soon crush Satan under our feet, perfecting in everlasting glory our deliverance from sin, death, and all evil.

8.  For Yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever

We acknowledge, our God, that all sovereignty, glorious excellence, and all highest praise is eternally Yours alone. So we are emboldened by Your Holy Spirit to ask these things of You in faith, trusting that You are willing and able to help us. We offer our requests, relying on Your grace to us in the Lord Jesus Christ, praying in His name.
Amen.