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Hymns for Psalm 23. < Hymns for Psalms. The United Methodist Hymnal. 377: It Is Well with My Soul. 381: Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us. 754b: Psalm 23. Baptist Hymnal 1991. 180: Jesus, Lover of My Soul.
- The Lord's My Shepherd
Of all metrical versions of the psalms, this versification...
- Hymns for Psalm 23
Hymns for Psalm 23 < Hymns for Psalms ... Psalm 23:1-5: Tr....
- The Lord's My Shepherd
Of all metrical versions of the psalms, this versification of Psalm 23 from the 1650 Scottish Psalter is probably the best known. Though one of the best examples of a Scottish psalm in meter, the grammatical structure of the text is twisted for the sake of rhyme – the mismatch of textual and musical phrases is especially problematic in stanza 1.
- Francis Rous
- The Lord's My Shepherd
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Melody. Crimond by Jessie Seymour Irvine. Composed. c.1872. " The Lord's My Shepherd " is a Christian hymn. It is a metrical psalm commonly attributed to the English Puritan Francis Rous and based on the text of Psalm 23 in the Bible. The hymn first appeared in the Scots Metrical Psalter in 1650 traced to a parish in Aberdeenshire.
- Who Wrote The Lyrics For ‘The Lord Is My Shepherd’?
- Who Wrote The Music For ‘The Lord Is My Shepherd’?
- What Are The Lyrics For The Lord’s My Shepherd?
While the words come from the 23rd Psalm of the Book of Psalms, the lyrics for the hymn went through multiple variations before becoming the lyrics we sing today. In 1641, the English lawyer and politician, Francis Rous, published a metrical paraphrase of the bible verse in a new Book of Psalms, during the reign of Oliver Cromwell. Nine years later...
There have been multiple arrangements of Psalm 23, with major modern choral composers from John Rutter to Howard Goodall(which Aled Jones performs with his son in the above video) reimagining the melody. Both of these composers draw text directly from the Bible psalm. But the oldest, and perhaps most famous melody was written in 1871 by Jessie Seym...
The Lord’s my Shepherd, I’ll not want; He makes me down to lie In pastures green; He leadeth me The quiet waters by. My soul He doth restore again, And me to walk doth make Within the paths of righteousness, E’en for His own name’s sake. Yea, though I walk in death’s dark vale, Yet will I fear no ill; For Thou art with me, and Thy rod And staff me ...
- Sophia Alexandra Hall
- “The Lord’s My Shepherd, I’ll Not Want” (Scottish Psalter, 1650) Listen. This venerable versification of the Authorized (King James) Version of the Bible (1611), now often ascribed to Cornish nobleman Francis Rous (1580–1659), appeared only four decades after the KJV and remains one of the most assuring versions of Psalm 23 nearly four centuries later.
- “The King of Love My Shepherd Is” (Henry Baker, 1868) Listen (Traditional Text) Listen (Modernized Text) Anglican clergyman William Henry Baker (1821–1877) provided another metrical version of Psalm 23 about two centuries after the famous paraphrase in the Scottish Psalter (1650).
- “My Shepherd Is the Lord” (Joseph Gelineau, Grail Psalter, 1963) Listen. The Grail Psalter (1963) was a collection of English psalm translations designed to be both faithful to the originals and more natural in speech patterns.
- “Shepherd Me, O God” (Marty Haugen, 1986) Listen. Composed in the mid-1980s at Holden Village, a retreat center in the Northern Cascades of Washington state, this responsorial paraphrase of Psalm 23 composed by Marty Haugen (b.
History of the Popular Hymn, “The Lord Is My Shepherd”. Psalm 23 reads: The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of ...
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Hymns for Psalm 23 < Hymns for Psalms ... Psalm 23:1-5: Tr. Psalter Hymnal 1987: Epiphany & Ministry of Christ; Funerals; Shepherd, God/Christ as; Songs for Children ...
