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The Lord's My Shepherd
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This article is about the hymn. For other uses, see The Lord is my shepherd (disambiguation).
"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.[1]
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The Lord's My Shepherd | |
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Christian hymn/Metrical Psalm | |
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Written | c. 1650 |
Text | Metrical translation attributed to Francis Rous |
Based on | Psalm 23 |
Meter | 8.6.8.6 |
Melody | Crimond by Jessie Seymour Irvine |
Composed | c.1872 |
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It is commonly sung to the tune Crimond, which is generally credited to Jessie Seymour Irvine.[2]