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My shepherd is the living Lord, Nothing therfore I need

Author: Thomas Sternhold
Tune: CAMBRIDGE (13121)
Published in 3 hymnals

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1 My Shepherd is the living Lord,
nothing therefore I need:
In pastures fair, near pleasant streams,
he setteth me to feed.

2 He shall convert and glad my soul,
and bring my mind in frame,
To walk in paths of righteousness,
for his most holy name.

3 Yea, though I walk in vale of death,
yet will I fear no ill;
Thy rod and staff do comfort me,
and thou art with me still:

4 And in the presence of my foes
my table thou dost spread;
Thou wilt fill full my cup, and thou
anointed hast my head.

5 Thro' all my life thy favour is
so frankly shew'd to me,
That in thy house for evermore
my dwelling place shall be.

Source: The Whole Book of Psalms #XXIIIb

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Author: Thomas Sternhold

Thomas Sternhold was Groom of the Robes to Henry VIII and Edward VI. With Hopkins, he produced the first English version of the Psalms before alluded to. He completed fifty-one; Hopkins and others composed the remainder. He died in 1549. Thirty-seven of his psalms were edited and published after his death, by his friend Hopkins. The work is entitled "All such Psalms of David as Thomas Sternhold, late Groome of the King's Majestye's Robes, did in his Lyfetime drawe into Englyshe Metre." Of the version annexed to the Prayer Book, Montgomery says: "The merit of faithful adherence to the original has been claimed for this version, and need not to be denied, but it is the resemblance which the dead bear to the living." Wood, in his "Athe… Go to person page >

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