The Lord is my Shepherd (Rutter) The Lord is my Shepherd (Rutter) The Lord is my Shepherd is a sacred choral composition by John Rutter, a setting of Psalm 23. The work was published by Oxford University Press in 1978. Marked "Slow but flowing", the music is in C major and 2/4 time. Rutter composed it for Mel Olson and the Chancel Choir of the First United Methodist Church in Omaha, Nebraska. He later included the work as a movement in his Requiem of 1985, then with orchestra or chamber ensemble.. In 1993, Rutter also made it part of his "Psalmfest", a collection of nine psalms
Psalm 124 the Liturgy of the Hours, Psalm 124 is currently recited at the Vespers of the Monday of the third week. It also is the source of the ubiquitous versicle "℣: Our help is in the name of the Lord ℟: who created Heaven and Earth", especially used for introductions of any sort, which is the psalm's verse 8. In 1694, Michel-Richard de Lalande composed a motet with regard to this psalm (S. 42), for the services of Louis XIV, in the royal chapel of the Chateau of Versailles. Psalm 124 Psalm 124 is the 124th psalm from the Book of