The following ten items have been tagged Psalms and Canticles.
The passages collected in this section are not taken from the Authorized Version, but they are written in a similar kind of Church English, and most of them come from the Bible. Several of them are from the Book of Common Prayer, first published in 1549; they include the Prayer Book’s Psalter, which had been translated by Myles Coverdale in 1535. Also included is a metrical translation of the Psalms by Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady.
For the Psalms in the Authorised Version, see The Book of Psalms (KJV). To search the text of the Psalms, go to Search the KJV or Search Tate and Brady.
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Picture: © David Iliff, Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped and optimized.. Source.
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A metrical translation of the Book of Psalms, done into rhyming English verse by the author of ‘While Shepherds Watched’.
Picture: By Thomas Webster (1800–1886), via the V&A Museum. Public domain.. Source.
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A translation of the Psalms made by Yorkshireman Myles Coverdale in 1535, and included in the Book of Common Prayer ever after.
Picture: © Alethe, Wikimedia Commons. C BY-SA 3.0.. Source.
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A collection of verses from the Book of Psalms breathing the repentance, the hope and the joy of the whole Psalter.
Picture: © The National Churches Trust, Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 2.0.. Source.
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Seven psalms chosen by Cassiodorus (?485-?585) for expressing heartfelt repentance and confident hope.
Picture: © Konstantin hramov, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.. Source.
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Picture: By Michael D. Beckwith. Public domain dedication.. Source.