“The Lord Is My Shepherd: Six Hymn Settings on Psalm 23” includes organ settings by Wilbur Held of both DOMINUS REGIT ME and ST COLUMBA. This hymn is fairly popular as a theme for organ preludes. ST COLUMBA is the more preferred tune of the two for arrangements. Paul Westermeyer suggests that this hymn is also appropriate for the Lord's Supper, because of the references in the fifth stanza to “thy pure chalice” on the table set for us by the Lord ( Hymnal Companion to Evangelical Lutheran Worship, 332). Obviously, this hymn can be used for a service based on texts such as Psalm 23 or John 10, or a service with the theme of Christ the Good Shepherd. DOMINUS REGIT ME appears in more hymnals, but ST. The editors of the English Hymnal were unable to use this tune due to copyright issues, so they adapted ST. Dykes wrote this tune for this hymn in 1868. DOMINUS REGIT ME is the opening phrase of Psalm 23 in Latin.
There are two tunes with which this text is frequently associated: DOMINUS REGIT ME, and ST COLUMBA. 5, referring to the cup in the Lord's Supper), and “Good Shepherd” (st. In the second half of the hymn, the connection between Old and New Testaments is more pronounced by the use of the words “cross” (st. Stanza 3 clearly refers to the Parable of the Lost Sheep (Luke 15:3-7). By changing the words “still waters” to “streams of living water,” Baker recalls Jesus' declaration that He is the source of these streams (John 4:14, 7:37-39). In stanza 1, Baker adds a comment on the two-way, eternal nature of the relationship between the shepherd and the sheep, referring to Jesus' words in John 10:28. In the first two stanzas, the connections are subtle. The six stanzas of this hymn correlate closely to the six verses of the twenty-third Psalm, while drawing connections between this well-known Old Testament passage and several New Testament images, all on the theme of the Good Shepherd. Most hymnals do not modernize the language. The fifth stanza is omitted from some hymnals, perhaps because this stanza contains more archaic expressions than any of the others. The text of this hymn has remained very stable. Henry Baker, editor-in-chief of Hymns Ancient and Modern, wrote this text based on Psalm 23, and it appeared in the appendix of that hymnal in 1868.
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