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Printable version; In other projects ... Psalm 23 is the 23rd psalm of the Book of Psalms, ... Psalm 23: Free scores at the Choral Public Domain Library ...
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]
Psalms are often referred to as sacred songs or hymns, the word Psalm originating from the Greek psallein meaning "to pluck". However, despite Sidney's musical use of rhyme and rhythm, it has been argued that Sidney's Psalms inject a stronger poetic theme rather than a musical one: "Sidney and especially Pembroke put into thorough practice ...
Timothy Duguid, Metrical Psalmody in Print and Practice: English 'Singing Psalms' and Scottish 'Psalm Buiks', 1547–1640 (Ashgate Press, 2014). Miller Patrick, Five Centuries of Scottish Psalmody (Oxford University Press, 1949). Rowland S. Ward, The Psalms in Christian Worship (Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia, Melbourne, 1992).
Others see these words in the context of Psalm 22 and suggest that Jesus recited these words, perhaps even the whole psalm, "that he might show himself to be the very Being to whom the words refer; so that the Jewish scribes and people might examine and see the cause why he would not descend from the cross; namely, because this very psalm ...
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The psalms, especially, were felt to be commended to be sung by these texts. One example is James 5:13 "Is any merry? let him sing psalms." (The word translated "sing psalms" in the KJV at James 5:13 is ψαλλετω. [4] Some other versions give more general translations such as "sing praise" in the ESV.)
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