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My Shepherd is the Living Lord And He that doth me feed
How can I then lack anything whereof I stand in need?
It is estimated that only 10% of Rous's original text was retained in the final version. [5] In England, Barton's version found favour with the English Parliament but it was the Rous version that won approval in Scotland due to its perceived accuracy in translating source texts, and in 1650, General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the church's ruling body, approved the Rous version for the Scots Metrical Psalter . [4]
Biblical text (King James Version, 1611) | Rous paraphrase (1641) [6] | Hymn text (Rous, 1650) [7] |
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1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. | My Shepherd is the Living Lord | 1. The Lord's my Shepherd, I'll not want; |
2He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: | |2. In pastures green and flourishing He makes me down to lye: | |
3He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me | 3. And when I feele my selfe neere lost, | 2. My soul he doth restore again, |
4Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, | 4. And though I were even at death's doore, | 3.Yea, though I walk through death's dark vale, |
5Thou preparest a table before me in the presence | 5. Thou hast my table richly stor'd | 4. My table thou hast furnished |
6Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: | 6. Thy grace and mercy all my daies | 5. Goodness and mercy all my life |
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