About the Selah Project
Scripture, set to modern music.
The name comes from the psalms. Seventy-one times, right in the middle of the singing, one small word appears: Selah. Most scholars read it as a musical instruction. Stop here. Let the last line land before the next one begins.
Selah Sound Collective was built on that instruction: over 230 songs that each take a passage of Scripture — a vow, a psalm, a moment of deliverance — and give it a melody you can sit inside. These are modern settings, and no two sound alike.
“Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit.”
Ephesians 5:19
A song travels further than a page. You can read Ruth’s vow and admire it; humming it for a week is harder to walk away from. That’s the hope here: that somewhere between the second verse and the drive home, one of these follows you out of the car and into Monday.
Selah Sound Collective is the brainchild of Dominic Rivard, who wrote the words to most of what you’re hearing and produced the music with the help of today’s latest technology. The songs are only half of it: what this project raises goes to God’s Work, and to sending kids to camp — the ones who have earned a week away, and the ones whose families cannot get them there. Usually the same kids.
Thank you for listening. And when a line catches you, do what the psalms say. Pause. Selah.