Safe in the shadow of the Lord
Safe in the shadow of the Lord. Timothy Dudley-Smith* (1926-2024).
Of the texts prepared for Psalm Praise, this free adaptation of Psalm 91 has proved one of the most popular. Like the author’s version of Psalm 115 (‘Not to us be glory given’*) it was written in 1970, at Sevenoaks in January. Published in this Psalm collection in 1973 with two tunes, it soon became almost inseparable from Norman Warren*’s CREATOR GOD, composed in 1964 and first appearing in Youth Praise I (1966). Over 50 more books have included it since; translations include Chinese and Welsh versions, and it has frequently been recorded. The author writes that ‘the repeated phrase [‘I trust in him…’] which forms the...
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