The Lord is my shepherd, no want shall I know
The Lord is my shepherd, no want shall I know. James Montgomery* (1771-1854).
This metrical version of Psalm 23 was first published in Montgomery’s Songs of Zion: being imitations of psalms (1822, Second Edition, 1824). It was then included in his Christian Psalmist (Glasgow, 1825). It was later printed in his Original Hymns (1853), with a change in the first line to ‘...nor want’, and minor changes in spelling and punctuation. The 1825 text was as follows:
The Lord is my shepherd, no want shall I know; I feed in green pastures, safe-folded I rest;He leadeth my soul where the still waters flow,Restores me when wandering, redeems when opprest.
Thro’ the valley and shadow of death tho’ I...
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