Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Psalms in Meter
In this versification a Psalm was not merely selected as the foundation of a hymn, rejecting sentiments of the sacred writer, and adding thoughts of the versifier, as did a distinguished English Lyrist; but the attempt was made to give most of the Psalms entire and pure, with out abbreviation, and without addition. The abbreviations which occur are not of sentiments, but of repetitions; for in Hebrew poetry, by a peculiarity known as parallelism, the same thought, with slight variations, is frequently several times repeated. And the additions, which are few, either are implied in the Psalms, or serve to explain and enforce the sentiments of the sacred writers. These compositions are properly paraphrases.
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