My favorite Psalters are the ESV and KJV. It’s a beautiful thing that unites the universal Christian Church that we can pray the same book, despite belonging to different traditions.

My first hymnal was The People's Mass Book used by the Roman Catholic Church in the middle-to-late 1960s when the traditional mass was celebrated in English from 1964 to 1969, at which time our Archdiocese was made to celebrate the Novus Ordo early. It had a Psalter for changing in English, as well as lots of mostly Protestant hymns. I didn't know I was learning lots of Protestant hymns. Psalm 33 (34) was the only Psalm we chanted in English, as a Communion hymn, alternating with a Latin hymn translated into English as Humbly We Adore Thee. That People's Mass Book was replaced by a seasonal missalette that I didn't like, even at 9 years old. In 1977-78, I attended an Independent Fundamentalist Baptist Church that used the ally American Hymnal, where I got immersed in the Baptistry because they said my Roman Catholic baptism as an infant was not valid. That church called itself a Baptist Temple. I actually have good memories from there. Of course, when I turned 18, I started playing Tenor Saxophone in Rock bands and Blues bands, so I sadly quit attending Church. When I came back to church in 1985 at age 25 and quit playing Rock, it was at the Pentecostal Holiness Church. They sang a lot of Down Home hand-clapping gospel songs and choruses made using mostly the KJV. As a result, I memorized a lot of KJV Psalter verses. It wasn't until about 1997 that I bought a 1928 BCP with KJV and Apocrypha at a used book store that I was formerly introduced to the Coverdale Psalter. I use the Coverdale Psalter when I read the Psalms daily. However, I find myself singing those KJV psalm choruses I learned at the Pentecostal Holiness Church when I sing while doing tasks around the house. The ESV Psalter reads well, but I prefer the KJV #1 and the Coverdale #2, and the NKJV corrected by Orthodox Christian Scholars when I read the Psalms (A Psalter for Prayer and The Orthodox Study Bible Psalter. The New Coverdale Psalter gets into that mix as well. The Ten Commandments, the Summary of the Law, the Beatitudes, the three Lukan Canticles, and especially The Psalter are my Bible Prayer Book. I'm a Heretic, of course, so the Lord's Prayer and the Hail Mary don't have to be in the Bible Prayer Book. But, they can be included. Thanks for the video.

I recently got a couple of KJV psalters. I've also got a copy of the psalms in metre, I think its the 1650 translation. I was contemplating getting one of those little green ones based on the septuagint, but wasnt sure how the translation was.

I read the Coverdale psalter. However, on my bookshelf is the Knox Bible. In the case of Psalm 133 the differences in translation aren't dramatic. "Come, then, praise the Lord, all you that are the Lord's servants; you that wait on the Lord's house at midnight, lift up your hands towards the sanctuary and bless the Lord. May the Lord who dwell in Sion bless thee, the Lord who made heaven and earth!" Recently, given my interest in the Ordinariate, I discovered that the Anglican Church broadcasts Evensong on the BBC and on this humble platform. It must include the Psalms set to music. Much of the music, but not all of my youth in Church, was not good. At the time of the act of vandalism that was named *Sacrosanctum Concilium* all of the Gregorian chant, and polyphony, was thrown in the garbage. The council itself called Gregorian chant the greatest artistic treasure of the Church And they put a stop to it. I don't quite know what to say about that.