The Lord is My Shepherd (Eastman Johnson) The Lord is My Shepherd (Eastman Johnson) The Lord is My Shepherd is an 1863 oil on wood painting by American artist Eastman Johnson. The painting measures 16 5/8 x 13 1/8 in. (42.3 x 33.2 cm.) and is on display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The title of the painting comes from Psalm 23, which begins with the line: "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want." Johnson painted it just after the Emancipation Proclamation was announced in 1863. Its imagery includes an African-American man reading the first part of a Bible, possibly the Book of Exodus.
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