Abstract
Metrical Psalm paraphrase is a Christian tradition, because Hebrew the Psalms are already poetry, as Philip Sidney and many of his contemporaries recognized. John Donne, one of the most important contemporary statements on the Sidney Psalmes, called Philip and Mary Sidney David's successors, who their holy zeale wrote metrical Psalms that in forms of joy and art doe re-reveale the words of David to them English. Most contemporary praise and most modern studies of the Psalmes of Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, focus on their art and on their importance as a literary model, yet for some early modern readers these metrical paraphrases retained their function as the Word of God. Mary Sidney emphasizes the clothing metaphor her graceful dedication to the queen, imagining her presenting the Psalmes as she had presented a New Year's gift of clothing to Elizabeth.
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