Shane & Shane

5 songs checked against the passages they lean on. Each one was graded on its own, against what that song does with the text.

How the 5 checks landed

~ FAITHFUL 4
NOT A QUOTE 1

This is a count, not a verdict. We grade songs, one at a time, against what each one does with the text. A tally of those checks describes a catalogue. It is not a judgment of the people who wrote or sang it, and no number here puts anyone on or off The List. Most drift is craft pressure, not deception. Read the proofs, not the arithmetic.

The songs

~ FAITHFUL “Psalm 90 (Satisfy Us With Your Love)” Shane & Shane Psalm 90:1-17 Sing it, and read Psalm 90 whole alongside it. The song is a true paraphrase of the psalm's opening and its two best-known prayers. The psalm's hard middle, and its ending, are not in the song.

✓ The song keeps Moses' plural. Every petition is ours and us, never mine and me, which is how the psalm prays and how a congregation actually stands in it

⚠ Verses 7 to 11 are not sung. That is the psalm's reason for everything it asks, and without it the chorus's plea has no stated grounds

NOT A QUOTE “Though You Slay Me” Shane & Shane Job 13:15 Sing it as a sufferer's vow shaped by Job, not as Job's verse. Know two things: the famous line follows one of two ancient Hebrew readings, and Job's own next words argue his case rather than end the argument.

✓ It never says it is quoting, anywhere in the lyric: the borrowing is announced by the title's echo, and the writers have pointed to Job 13:15 openly in interviews rather than presenting the words as the verse

⚠ The verse's second half is not sung. Job trusts and then defends his ways to God's face, and the book lets both stand. A singer who knows only the chorus gets a Job who worships and never argues

~ FAITHFUL “Psalm 13” Shane & Shane Psalm 13:1-6 Sing it. The verses are Psalm 13 in the psalm's order, with the questions kept as questions. Just know the chorus, the line you will sing most, is the song's own vow of waiting, not a line of the psalm.

✓ The how-long questions are sung as questions, to God, in the psalm's own second person. A song that leads worship into honest lament is scarce, and this one leads with it

⚠ The chorus is the one part of the song that is not in Psalm 13. The vow to wait is sung more than any line of the psalm, and nothing in the song distinguishes it from the text

~ FAITHFUL “Psalm 46 (Lord of Hosts)” Shane & Shane Psalm 46:7-11 Sing it. It is a real setting of Psalm 46's back half, addressed to God throughout. Just know that verse 10, the one place God Himself speaks, is not sung, and its famous phrase appears only as your quieted heart.

✓ The chorus is the psalm's own refrain doing the psalm's own job: the presence of the LORD of Hosts held up as the answer to fire, storm and battle, with the catastrophe kept in the song rather than trimmed out

⚠ Verse 10 is not sung. Its phrase appears once, as God making the singer's heart be still. Nothing false is said, but a command God addresses to a warring world returns as a comfort applied to one heart, which is a smaller thing than the psalm says

~ FAITHFUL “Psalm 34 (Taste and See)” Shane & Shane Psalm 34:1-8 Sing it. It follows Psalm 34 closely and in order. Just know that the psalm says the angel of the LORD where the song says the Son of God, and no translation is named.

✓ Follows Psalm 34 in the psalm's own order, verses 4 through 9, rather than lifting one memorable line out of it

⚠ Verse 7 says the angel of the LORD; the song says the Son of God. The reading has a long history, and 1 Peter 2:3 does apply this psalm to Christ, but the identification is the song's and not the psalm's