Matthew Kemp is the interim Priest-in-Charge at St. Paul’s by-the-Lake (Episcopal/Anglican) in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago. He recently completed a PhD in Theology at Loyola University Chicago. He is married and has four children.
These Psalms are chanted according to a traditional Plainsong setting (sometimes known as Gregorian Chant, after Pope Gregory I). In the medieval monastic tradition, the entire Psalter was chanted over the course of each week. After the English Reformation, the recitation of Psalms became a key part of Anglican spirituality, in the Daily Offices of Morning and Evening Prayer. Traditional “choir dress” for clergy praying the Office in church includes a surplice (white robe), academic hood, and tippet (black scarf), as seen in the video.
Psalm 80
Book of Common Prayer (1979)
1 Hear, O Shepherd of Israel, leading Joseph like a flock; *
shine forth, you that are enthroned upon the cherubim.
2 In the presence of Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, *
stir up your strength and come to help us.
3 Restore us, O God of hosts; *
show the light of your countenance, and we shall be saved.
4 O LORD God of hosts, *
how long will you be angered
despite the prayers of your people?
5 You have fed them with the bread of tears; *
you have given them bowls of tears to drink.
6 You have made us the derision of our neighbors, *
and our enemies laugh us to scorn.
7 Restore us, O God of hosts; *
show the light of your countenance, and we shall be saved.
8 You have brought a vine out of Egypt; *
you cast out the nations and planted it.
9 You prepared the ground for it; *
it took root and filled the land.
10 The mountains were covered by its shadow *
and the towering cedar trees by its boughs.
11 You stretched out its tendrils to the Sea *
and its branches to the River.
12 Why have you broken down its wall, *
so that all who pass by pluck off its grapes?
13 The wild boar of the forest has ravaged it, *
and the beasts of the field have grazed upon it.
14 Turn now, O God of hosts, look down from heaven;
behold and tend this vine; *
preserve what your right hand has planted.
15 They burn it with fire like rubbish; *
at the rebuke of your countenance let them perish.
16 Let your hand be upon the man of your right hand, *
and son of man you have made so strong for yourself.
17 And so will we never turn away from you; *
give us life, that we may call upon your Name.
18 Restore us, O LORD God of hosts; *
show the light of your countenance, and we shall be saved.
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As parents at home in the present sheltering in place, we(Emily (Psalm 8) and I) have felt a desire to reengage the Psalms. In invitation, we have found the blessing of giving over our hearts and what keeps our hearts from him in confession, supplication, worship and thanksgiving.
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