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 89 Psalmist laments what seemed like God's lack of remembrance of his covenant promises. But finally, in the 52nd and closing verse of the Psalm, the Psalmist's tone changes once again, when he proclaims, "Blessed be the LORD forever! Amen and Amen" (ESV). With these words, the third book of the Psalter is closed. In the Jewish arrangement it closes the third book of the Psalms. Spurgeon called it a "Covenant Psalm" saw it as the "utterance of a believer" Psalm 89 Psalm 89 (Greek numbering: Psalm 88) is in the Book of Psalms, part of the Hebrew Bible. It is