Psalm 133 in full. Tune: Newington

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Sing Psalms
Psalm 133
Tune: Newington
For the tune see:
https://freechurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Sing-Psalms-Music-PDF.pdf#page=52
This is a recommend tune (number 93) for Psalm 133 in the Scottish Psalter. The Sing Psalms tune number is 79. The words in Sing Psalms are almost identical to those in the Trinity Psalter Hymnal where the same tune is used except that it's called St. Stephen. Confusingly there's another CM tune called St. Stephen which is also known as Ambridge.
St. Stephen (Ambridge): https://youtube.com/shorts/O1VOQvKLFIs
For more on the tune see: https://www.trinitypsalterhymnal.org/psalms/how-excellent-a-thing-it-is/
Source: TJ Hallett (Used by permission)
https://youtu.be/v0ZopriBwcg?si=AVdNSh9qUKUbKJxJ
Images:
Aaron ordained as High Priest by Moses (Leviticus 8)
The images are only intended to provide resonances with some aspects of the psalm; they are not intended as a one-to-one correspondences. They are more like visual cross-references.

A Song of Ascents; of David
PSALM 133 C.M.

1 How excellent a thing it is,
how pleasant and how good,
When brothers dwell in unity
and live as brothers should!

2 For it is like the precious oil,
poured out on Aaron’s head,
That, running over, down his beard,
upon his collar spread.

3 Like Hermon’s dew, upon the hill
of Zion it descends.
The LORD bestows his blessing there—
the life that never ends.

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