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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 the 23rd psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "The Lord is my shepherd".In Latin, it is known by the incipit, "Dominus regit me ".
The Lord Is My Shepherd is a sacred choral composition by John Rutter, a setting of Psalm 23.The work was published by Oxford University Press in 1978. [1] Marked "Slow but flowing", the music is in C major and 2/4 time. [2]
The New Cambridge Paragraph Bible with the Apocrypha is a newly edited edition of the King James Version of the Bible (KJV) published by Cambridge University Press in 2005. [1] This 2005 edition was printed as The Bible (Penguin Classics) in 2006. [2] The editor is David Norton, Reader in English at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
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. [4]
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The Psalms of the two versions are numbered differently. The Vulgate follows the Septuagint numbering, while the King James Version follows the numbering of the Masoretic Text. This generally results in the Psalms of the former being one number behind the latter. See the article on Psalms for more details.
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