#782: My Shepherd, You Supply My Need
Feb. 27th, 2021 10:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lutheranhymnsAnother for the Psalm 23 mini-section. My choir did a version of this which was pretty straightforward, but had a cool cello accompaniment.
For a text like this, every arrangement is closely related, but sometimes slightly different things will stand out in different texts. In this one, I like how "you prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies" turns into "your hand, in sight of all my foes, does still my table spread." The parenthetical-ness of "in sight of all my foes" to me seems to emphasize how God is almost spiting or taunting the enemies.
Since that line is originally in the second person, it shouldn't be a surprise that this version is as well. What's interesting is that the original text was originally in an old-timey dialect: "My shepherd doth supply my need, most holy is his name." Reworking it to second person solves both the sexism and the "doth" issues!
For a text like this, every arrangement is closely related, but sometimes slightly different things will stand out in different texts. In this one, I like how "you prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies" turns into "your hand, in sight of all my foes, does still my table spread." The parenthetical-ness of "in sight of all my foes" to me seems to emphasize how God is almost spiting or taunting the enemies.
Since that line is originally in the second person, it shouldn't be a surprise that this version is as well. What's interesting is that the original text was originally in an old-timey dialect: "My shepherd doth supply my need, most holy is his name." Reworking it to second person solves both the sexism and the "doth" issues!
