1000 Songs/Why are you downcast O my soul Ps 042
Why are you downcast O my soul Ps 042
Commentaries on Psalm 42:
Verses 2-3 sung in traditional Hebrew:
Where it is used in song:
- Mendelssohn – (recording)
- Handel's As Pants The Hart (HWV 251) – (explanation of HWV)* * explanation helps understand psalm’s inclusion
- Bach's Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis (BWV 21)
Metricized Versions:
- Tate & Brady
- Sternhold & Hopkins
- New England Puritans
- Old Scottish Psalter (1635)
- Scottish Reformed Church (1650)
- Isaac Watts
- Michael Morgan