The Lord’s My Shepherd, He Will Guide

 

A hymn for Good Shepherd Sunday

 

Tune: St. James Air

 

1 The Lord’s my Shepherd, He will guide

To pastures pure and green;

All that I want He has supplied

For every need I’ve seen.

Peace flows in water from His side,

That washes my soul clean. 

 

2 All that my soul to sin had lost,

He gives and bids me take;

Lays down His life to pay the cost,

Makes me of life partake.

On righteous paths He walked for me

He leads, for His name’s sake. 

 

3 If shadows of my death I see

While I walk here below,

He takes my fear away from me,

And makes the evil go,

For He is with me with His words,

Which sweetest comfort show!

 

4 I eat in front of death and hell

His body and His blood,

Which all my sins from me dispel,

Replacing them with good;

His cross pours on my heart and mind

The Spirit of my God.   

 

5 Goodness and mercy He will give

To sinners weak and poor,

So that as long as I will live

Open is heaven’s door,

Which I will enter with His sheep

And dwell there evermore! 

            4/30/19