Scriptures In Meter: Messiah I

Scriptures in Meter for reading, memorization, recitation, and singing: Messiah I, featuring selections from Translations and Paraphrases In Verse of Several Passages of Sacred Scripture pertaining to the first advent of our Lord, and suggestions on how to use them. Prepared by Christina A. Huffman for the enjoyment, instruction, and edification of adults and children.

A few years ago someone gave my family a Scottish Bible printed in the 1800's. What a treasure! This gigantic Bible (clearly intended to only be used at home and not carried to church!) contains all of the “Psalms in Metre” plus several other selected scriptures in meter. As someone who likes to create music but isn't so good about coming up with words, I was thrilled. My mother often listens to my tunes and finds words in songbooks that match them and here was pages and pages of potential words! I realize that not everyone writes music, but these verses may be a delight to anyone who wants some “new” songs—in this case, quite old ones—to play with.

The scriptures in meter are not exclusive to this Bible, of course. I found one of them (Psalm 23) in my hymnal labeled as a Scottish Psalter. I have even seen some of the Psalms in Metre available online. However, I would find a scanned page of relatively small print rather inferior to sing by. Thus this little volume! You don't have to read scanned pages, you don't have to try to sing out of a book that weighs as much as a small child, and with large and giant print versions, everyone can join in the singing (and get the words right) not just the young ones. You also don't have to wonder how to find a suitable tune—that's explained to.

Scriptures included in Messiah I are Is. 42:1-12, Luke 1:46-55, Luke 2:8-14, Luke 2:25-32 , and Luke 4:18, 19.

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