Monthly Table of Psalms


Be filled with the Spirit; Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ
Psalter of King David
Metrical Psalms

[David's Psalter is from the Authorized Version and was originally translated from the Latin Vulgate by Coverdale. The Metrical Hymns were developed as poetic songs for worship.]

Psalms for Sundays in the Church Year


You may like to annotate your Psalter according to this listing
If all psalms are read daily, the Psalter will be read monthly.
At least one psalm (or section) should be read at morning prayer and one at evening prayer.
The Gloria Patri may be said between and at the end of all psalms

"Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost
as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end, Amen".

Day of Month | Psalms at Morning Prayer | Psalms at Evening Prayer

 
 1 |   1-5   |   6-8                2  |   9-11   |  12-14
 3 |  15-17  |  18                  4  |  19-21   |  22-23
 5 |  24-26  |  27-29               6  |  30-31   |  32-34
 7 |  35-36  |  37                  8  |  38-40   |  41-43
 9 |  44-46  |  47-49              10  |  50-52   |  53-55
11 |  56-58  |  59-61              12  |  62-64   |  65-67
13 |  68     |  69-70              14  |  71-72   |  73-74
15 |  75-77  |  78                 16  |  79-81   |  82-85
17 |  86-88  |  89                 18  |  90-92   |  93-94
19 |  95-97  |  98-101             20  | 102-103  | 104
21 | 105     | 106                 22  | 107      | 108-109
23 | 110-113 | 114-115             24  | 116-118  | 119 (-32)
25 | 119(-72)| 119(-103)           26  | 119(-144)| 119 (-150)
27 | 120-125 | 126-131             27  | 132-135  | 136-138
29 | 139-140 | 141-143             30  | 144-146  | 147-150
                                     Repeat day 30 on day 31

SINGING THE PSALMS

The psalms were written to be sung. One may purchase Saint Dunstan's Plainsong Psalter with both Anglican and Gregorian plainsong, and Matins and Vespers which were also sung. I believe it to be same translation as the Psalter of King David. Here is a version of the Metrical Hymns with commentary and midi to match the Metrical Psalms 1813 Psalter. Also there is Psalms in Meter (not a literal translation)

A very simple plainsong form is one that anyone can master: Pointed psalms have two discernable sections to a line. Sing as you would read it aloud, using punctuation for normal pauses. Use a slow even cadence as you would speak. Pause at commas as you would in speech. Do not extend any word/note. All words are sung at the same note except as follows. In the first section raise the last syllable(s), or word, one note. In the second part, sing the next to the last syllable two notes lower, and the last syllable one note lower the normal plain song tone. Experiment to find a form and arrangement you are comfortable using that may be done without notations. If using for group singing, you may wish to print off and further point the syllables, or use a cantor to sing each line which is then repeated by the congregation, or the congregation may sing only the last line of a set.

Example of a few verses of Ps 69: from the normal note of singing the verse in the same note at a slow but natural tempo to the | red one note higher, then in the second half of the verse the same note to the | and then green two notes lower,and blue one lower than the normal note of the verse. Hear demonstration (forgive the inadequacy of this humble uneducated voice and tone deaf singer; as my fellow centurions tell me, God hears a voice of praise.... so, "Make a joyful noise in to the Lord")

1 Save me, O | God * for the waters are come in even unto | my soul.
2 I stick fast in the deep mire, where no ground | is * I am come into deep waters, so that the floods run o |ver me.
7 And Why? for thy sake have I suffered | reproof (or "re | proof")* Shame hath covered | my face.