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"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.
One of the best known metrical versions of Psalm 23 is the Christian hymn, "The Lord's My Shepherd", a translation first published in the 1650 Scottish Psalter. [21] Although widely attributed to the English Parliamentarian Francis Rous , the text was the result of significant editing by a translating committee in the 1640s before publication ...
This article refers to the English version. The book was published on the 150th anniversary of the publication of the first LDS hymnbook, compiled by Emma Smith in 1835. Previous hymnbooks used by the church include The Manchester Hymnal (1840), The Psalmody (1889), Songs of Zion (1908), Hymns (1927), and Hymns (1948).
The second LDS hymnbook with music was John Tullidge's Latter Day Saints' Psalmody, published in 1857. This collection included music for LDS hymns such as "O My Father", "Praise to the Man" and "An Angel from on High", complete with piano accompaniment. Tullidge felt that many of the pairings of tune with hymns used in LDS meetings were poorly ...
Psalm 23, "The Lord's my shepherd", would typically be sung to tune 144 "Wiltshire" (tune "Crimond", written in 1872, becoming overwhelmingly popular from the 1930s), but could theoretically be sung to almost any other, the only restriction being the conventions of familiarity.
The King of Love My Shepherd Is is an 1868 hymn with lyrics written by Henry Williams Baker, based on the Welsh version of Psalm 23 and the work of Edmund Prys. [1] [2] [3] It is most often sung to one of four different melodies: "Dominus Regit Me", composed by John Bacchus Dykes, a friend and contemporary of Henry Williams Baker.
The Lord is my shepherd are the first words of Psalm 23 (King James version). The Lord is my shepherd may also refer to: The Lord Is My Shepherd (Eastman Johnson), an oil on wood painting (1863) The Lord Is My Shepherd, a choral composition by John Rutter setting verses from Psalm 23 (1978)
While Rev Irvine was serving at Crimond Church, his teenage daughter Jessie was undertaking training as an organist at the nearby town of Banff.According to some accounts, she composed a tune in 1871 for the metrical version of Psalm 23, "The Lord's My Shepherd", in the Scottish Psalter as an exercise for a composition class.