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Consider the following metrical settings of Psalm 23. Students might be asked to compare each setting and how each text adapts the scriptural text. Each setting either adds or omits content from the scriptural text in order to fill out the poetic lines and achieve the necessary rhymes at the end of each line.
Source: Presbyterian Hymnal, 171. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1990. Public domain.
Source: Psalter Hymnal, 162. Grand Rapids: CRC Publications, 1987.