Excerpt from Translation of Buchanan's Latin Psalms Into English Verse The Psalms are sacred poems, containing the doctrines, precepts, history, and prophecy communicated at greater length by the other parts of the inspired writings of the Old and New Testaments. The Psalms likewise express all the emotions of the pious soul, in great variety of lan guage, suited to every circumstance of human life. They were composed, for the most part, one thousand, and one of them at least, fifteen hundred years, before the birth of Christ, that they might be sung in the worship of God, among the Jews, and they have been used by them, in succeeding generations, in their religious assemblies. They were originally composed in Hebrew verse, and translations of them have been made into many languages, both in prose and verse. They are still sung in Christian assem blies of various nations, in poetical versions, which they understand. A poetical version of them, in English, has for many years been sanctioned by the Church of Scotland, which is remarkable for its fidelity to the Original Hebrew, and for the ancient simplicity of its style. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.