The Lord is my Shepherd (Rutter) written over 20 years. For that version, he used also soloists. The biblical text is Psalm 23, in the King James Version (). After a short instrumental introduction, the first verses are sung by the sopranos, while the men's voices continue in unison "He shall convert my soul". "Yeah, though I walk thro' the valley of the shadow of death" is expressed by five parts (with divided bass voices) in homophony in low register, while "I will fear no evil" turns to four part setting, which is kept for the following verses, structured by instrumental interludes. In a recapitulation of
Psalm 47 a reduced version with guitar accompaniment. Many hymns are modelled after Psalm 47. They include the English "The Universal Sovereignty of Christ" with the incipit "Rejoice, ye people, homage give", published in 1902, and the German "Völker aller Land", written by Georg Thurmair in 1964 and revised 1971, when it was selected to appear in the German Catholic hymnal "Gotteslob" of 1975. Even more hymns pick up topics from Psalm 47, including "Praise to the Lord, the Almighty", which paraphrases verses 6–9. Psalm 47 Psalm 47 is the 47th psalm of the Book of Psalms, generally known in English by