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 102 the first part of Hear my prayer, O Lord, an anthem composed in 1682 by Henry Purcell, using the translation of the Book of Common Prayer. Verses 25b-28 (interspersed with Psalm 90) form the text of Jochen Klepper's 1938 "Neujahrslied" (New Years' Song). Psalm 102 Psalm 102 is the 102nd psalm of the Book of Psalms, generally known in English by its first verse, in the King James Version, "Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee." In the Greek Septuagint version of the bible, and in its Latin translation Vulgate, this psalm is Psalm 101