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 143 past, to verse 5: He sees the action of the Lord in his life. Another element comes in: to be adjusted to the will of the Lord, as the psalmist asks in verse 10. Verse 8 goes in the same direction. At the loyalty of the Lord must be unwavering devotion of the Psalmist, that his prayer is answered. Psalm 143 Psalm 143 is the 143rd psalm of the Book of Psalms in the Masoretic and modern numbering, corresponding to Psalm 142 in the Vulgata Clementina. It is one of the Penitential Psalms. Verse 2 is found in the repetition