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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 ...
The King James Version, prepared in 1611, is the best-known and most widely used translation of Christian Bible, and that with which readers are most familiar. To provide a feel for Rosenberg's translation, Psalm 23 is given below in the versions from the KJV and from A Poet's Bible. From the KJV: The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
There are many translation differences between the Sidney Psalter and the King James Bible. This caused issues in the 16th century as the translations show different interpretations of what is the word of God. The King James Bible version of Psalm 43 is significantly shorter than Psalter's.
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. [1] It is commonly sung to the tune Crimond, which is generally credited to Jessie Seymour Irvine. [2]
During the period of the English Reformation, many other poets besides Sternhold and Hopkins wrote metrical versions of some of the psalms. The first was Sir Thomas Wyatt, who in around 1540 made verse versions of the six penitential Psalms. His version of Psalm 130, the famous De profundis clamavi, begins: From depth of sin and from a deep ...
The 23rd psalm, in which this phrase appears, uses the image of God as a shepherd and the believer as a sheep well cared-for. Julian Morgenstern has suggested that the word translated as "cup" could contain a double meaning: both a "cup" in the normal sense of the word, and a shallow trough from which one would give water to a sheep.
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King James II Version of the Bible Jay P. Green: 1971 KJ3/LITV: King James 3 Version of the Holy Bible (by Jay P. Green) 1985 KJV20: King James Version—Twentieth Century Edition Jay P. Green: NKJV: New King James Version: 1982 KJ21: 21st Century King James Version: 1994 TMB: Third Millennium Bible: 1998 MKJV: Modern King James Version by Jay ...