1 In my distress to GOD I cried,
and He gave ear to me.
From lying lips, and guileful tongue,
O LORD, my soul set free.
What shall be giv’n thee?
Or what shall be done to thee, false tongue?
E'en burning coals of juniper,
sharp arrows of the strong.
2 Woe’s me that I in Meshech am
a sojourner so long;
that I in tabernacles dwell
to Kedar that belong.
My soul with him that hateth peace
hath long a dweller been.
I am for peace; but when I speak,
for battle they are keen.
Thought by some scholars to date back to the Middle Ages, KINGSFOLD is a folk tune set to a variety of texts in England and Ireland. The tune was published in English Country Songs [sic: English County Songs] (1893), an anthology compiled by Lucy E. Broadwood and J. A. Fuller Maitland. After having…
MC KEE has an interesting history. According to a letter from Charles V. Stanford (PHH 512) to Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (who arranged the tune for piano in his Twenty-Four Negro Melodies, 1905), MC KEE was originally an Irish tune taken to the United States and adapted by African American slaves. It…
Display Title: In My Distress to GOD I criedFirst Line: In my distress to GOD I criedTune Title: KINGSFOLDMeter: CMDScripture: Psalm 120Date: 2023Subject: Supplication |Source: Scottish Psalter, 1650
Display Title: In My Distress to God I CriedFirst Line: In my distress to God I criedTune Title: MCKEEMeter: 8.6.8.6 CMScripture: Psalm 120Date: 2022Source: Scottish Metrical Psalter, 1650