Timeless love! We sing the story

Timeless love! We sing the story. Timothy Dudley-Smith* (1926-2024). When this hymn was first published in Psalm Praise (1973), and often when it is reprinted in more than 20 other collections, it has been quite properly headed as representing the first 18 verses of Psalm 89, ‘a small part of one of the longer psalms’. The writer, however, acknowledges that ‘the description “based on” is not meant to claim any very exact correspondence with the text’ (A House of Praise, 2003, p. 380). Written at home in Sevenoaks in April 1970, it was one of the early contributions for an innovative book (of 151 items) which attempted to revitalise the often neglected Psalms by offering some fresh...