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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.
Psalm 23 is often referred to as the "Shepherd's Psalm". The theme of God as a shepherd was common in ancient Israel and Mesopotamia . For example, King Hammurabi , in the conclusion to his famous legal code , wrote: "I am the shepherd who brings well-being and abundant prosperity; my rule is just.... so that the strong might not oppress the ...
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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theWord (previously known as In The Beginning Was The Word) [1] is a free Bible study software application for Microsoft Windows. It was first released in 2003 and developed by Costas Stergiou. It offers Bibles, commentaries, dictionaries, general books, maps, search capabilities, and support for Bibles in several languages. [2]
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