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Dominus regit me
Author: Thomas Sternhold Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: My shepherd is the living Lord, Nothing therfore I need
Dominus regit me
My Shepherd is the living Lord
Author: T. S. Hymnal: The Whole Book of Psalms #XXIIIb (1790) Lyrics: 1 My Shepherd is the living Lord,
nothing therefore I need:
In pastures fair, near pleasant streams,
he setteth me to feed.
2 He shall convert and glad my soul,
and bring my mind in frame,
To walk in paths of righteousness,
for his most holy name.
3 Yea, though I walk in vale of death,
yet will I fear no ill;
Thy rod and staff do comfort me,
and thou art with me still:
4 And in the presence of my foes
my table thou dost spread;
Thou wilt fill full my cup, and thou
anointed hast my head.
5 Thro' all my life thy favour is
so frankly shew'd to me,
That in thy house for evermore
my dwelling place shall be. Scripture: Psalm 23 Languages: English
My Shepherd is the living Lord
Dominus regit me
Author: T. S. Hymnal: The Whole Booke of Psalmes #11b (1640) First Line: My shepherd is the living Lord Lyrics: 1 My Shepherd is the living Lord,
nothing therefore I need:
In pastures faire with waters calme,
he lets me sit to feed.
2 He did convert and glad my soule,
and brought my mind in frame
To walk in paths of righteousnesse,
for his most holy Name.
3 Yea, though I walk in vale of death,
yet will I feare no ill:
Thy rod, thy staffe do comfort me,
and thou art with me still.
4 And in the presence of my foes
My table thou shalt spread:
Thou shalt (O Lord) fill full my cup,
and eke annoint my head.
5 Through all my life thy favour is
so frankly shew'd to me:
That in thy house for evermore
my dwelling place shall be. Scripture: Psalm 23 Languages: English
Dominus regit me
My Shepherd is the living Lord
Hymnal: American Hymns Old and New #26 (1980) Languages: English Tune Title: CAMBRIDGE
My Shepherd is the living Lord
Thomas Sternhold
1449 - 1549 Person Name: T. S. Author of "Dominus regit me" in The Whole Booke of Psalmes Thomas Sternhold was Groom of the Robes to Henry VIII and Edward VI. With Hopkins, he produced the first English version of the Psalms before alluded to. He completed fifty-one; Hopkins and others composed the remainder. He died in 1549. Thirty-seven of his psalms were edited and published after his death, by his friend Hopkins. The work is entitled "All such Psalms of David as Thomas Sternhold, late Groome of the King's Majestye's Robes, did in his Lyfetime drawe into Englyshe Metre." Of the version annexed to the Prayer Book, Montgomery says: "The merit of faithful adherence to the original has been claimed for this version, and need not to be denied, but it is the resemblance which the dead bear to the living." Wood, in his "Athenae Oxonlenses" (1691, vol. I, p. 62), has the following account of the origin of Sternhold's psalms: "Being a most zealous reformer, and a very strict liver, he became so scandalized at the amorous and obscene songs used in the Court, that he, forsooth, turned into English metre fifty-one of David's psalms, and caused musical notes to be set to them, thinking thereby that the courtiers would sing them instead of their sonnets; but they did not, some few excepted. However, the poetry and music being admirable, and the best that was made and composed in these times, they were thought fit to be sung in all parochial churches." Of Sternhold and Hopkins, old Fuller says: "They were men whose piety was better than their poetry, and they had drunk more of Jordan than of Helicon." Sternhold and Hopkins may be taken as the representatives of the strong tendency to versify Scripture that came with the Reformation into England--a work men eagerly entered on without the talent requisite for its successful accomplishment. The tendency went so far, that even the "Acts of the Apostles" was put into rhyme, and set to music by Dr. Christopher Tye.
--Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872.
Thomas Sternhold
