Name: Psalm 42:3-5 - ESV song
Uploaded: 2020-10-16T01:09:59.000000Z
Duration: 2 min 25 s
Description: Song credit to Josh Bates for verse 5 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2DPmuGYvJk). I adapted it to the ESV and added the melody for verses 3 and 4. We learned this passage as part of the SwordGrip program (swordgrip.com).

I'm a follower of Jesus, wife to Lucas, mom-mom to 4 rambunctious, lovable boys, and educator (I've taught in public and private schools and currently homeschool & teach English online). Scripture memorization is my hobby, passion, and calling. When I was teaching 4th grade at a Christian school, I told my students that I didn't want them to learn their memory verse only for their weekly test but for the rest of their lives. To make the verses stick, we used songs. I searched for verse songs on YouTube and adapted many songs to the translation we were using. If I couldn't find existing songs, we'd create our own. When I looped up with that class to 5th grade, we continued singing our memory verses. By the end of that year, we tested ourselves to see if we could remember all of our songs (using only the references as prompts). Together, we sang over 100 verses from memory! Since then, I've also created videos for all K-8 grades, as well as the AWANA and SwordGrip verses my sons learned.

Mary Belle

Song credit to Josh Bates for verse 5 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2DPmuGYvJk). I adapted it to the ESV and added the melody for verses 3 and 4. We learned this passage as part of the SwordGrip program (swordgrip.com).

Psalm 42:3-5 - ESV song

Mary Belle

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