Through all the changing scenes of life
Through all the changing scenes of life. Nahum Tate* (ca. 1652-1715) and Nicholas Brady* (1659-1726).
In its original form this metrical version of Psalm 34 was first published in A New Version of the Psalms of David [New Version] (1696), by Tate and Brady which succeeded that of 1562. It had 18 verses. This has been shortened in all books to produce a short but pithy hymn on the need to trust in God: A&M (1861 and onwards to A&MCP) uses five verses (corresponding to verses 1, 3-4, 7, 8 and 9 of the psalm) and adds the doxology from the New Version. This was also the EH text. Many nonconformist books (MHB, CP, BHB, HP, RS) print a six-verse text, without the doxology but including...
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