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Text:The Lord’s My Shepherd
Tune:CRIMOND
Adapter and Harmonizer:David Grant
Composer:Jessie S. Irvine

660. The Lord’s My Shepherd

1 The Lord’s my shepherd, I’ll not want.
He makes me down to lie
in pastures green; he leadeth me
the quiet waters by.

2 My soul he doth restore again,
and me to walk doth make
within the paths of righteousness,
e’en for his own name’s sake.

3 Yea, though I walk in death’s dark vale,
yet will I fear none ill,
for thou art with me and thy rod
and staff me comfort still.

4 My table thou hast furnished
in presence of my foes.
My head thou dost with oil anoint,
and my cup overflows.

5 Goodness and mercy all my life
shall surely follow me,
and in God’s house forevermore
my dwelling place shall be.

Text Information
First Line: The Lord’s my shepherd, I’ll not want
Title: The Lord’s My Shepherd
Meter: CM
Publication Date: 2020
Scripture: ;
Topic: Comfort; Funeral / Memorial Service; Joy (3 more...)
Source: based on Psalm 23; The Psalms of David in Meeter (Scotland), 1650
Tune Information
Name: CRIMOND
Composer: Jessie S. Irvine (1872)
Adapter and Harmonizer: David Grant
Meter: CM
Key: F Major
Source: harm. and adapt. David Grant (England), The Northern Psalter, 1872



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