Psalms for All Seasons ‎#13E

13E. Psalm 13: A Responsorial Setting

Text Information

• First Line: How long, LORD? Will you forget me forever?
• Title: Psalm 13: A Responsorial Setting
• Adapter (refrain): Community of Taizé
• Refrain First Line: O Lord, hear my prayer, O Lord hear my prayer
• Meter: Irregular
• Publication Date: 2012
• Scripture:
  Psalm 13:1-6
  ;
  Psalm 102:1-2
• Topic: Church Year: Good Friday; Church Year: Lent; Church Year: Passion/Palm Sunday; Church Year: Transfiguration; Cry to God; Enemies; Evil; Freedom; God: Daily Experience of; God: Trust in; God's: Sorrow; God's: Face; God's: Faithfulness; God's: Love; Grace; Impatience; Lament: General; Lament: Illness; Life Stages: Death; Longing for God; People of God / Church: Suffering; Poverty; Temptation And Trial; Trust; Year A, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, June 26-July 2
• Source: Evangelical Lutheran Worship (Psalm text)
• Copyright: Psalm text © 2006 Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, admin. Augsburg Forgress Publishers; Refrain © 1991 Ateliers et Presses de Taizé, Taizé Community, France, GIA Publications, Inc., exclusive North American gagnet
• Notes: Responsorial refrain to reading of Psalm 13. Tone included for chanting. When reading the psalm, consider singing the first stanza of the Taizé refrain several times before the reading, singing softly or humming under the reading of vv. 1-4. After reading v. 4, move to st. 2 of the refrain, singing several times before the final reading, again undergirding the reading with soft singing or humming. The singing of st. 2 may continue for some time after the reading concludes. When chanting the psalm, allow some silence or repeated singing of the Taizé refrain between vv. 4 and 5.

Tune Information

• Name: [O Lord, hear my prayer]
• Composer: Jacques Berthier, 1923-1994
• Meter: Irregular
• Key: e minor
• Copyright: Refrain © 1991 Ateliers et Presses de Taizé, Taizé Community, France, GIA Publications, Inc., exclusive North American Agent; Tone © 2011 Faith Alive Christian Resources