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Loving Shepherd of Thy sheep

by Jane Eliza Leeson (1807–1882)

Representative text

As printed in The Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal (1985), no. 549.

Verse 1

Loving Shepherd of Thy sheep, Keep Thy lamb, in safety keep; Nothing can Thy power withstand; None can pluck me from Thy hand.

Verse 2

Loving Shepherd, ever near, Teach Thy lamb Thy voice to hear; Suffer not my steps to stray From the straight and narrow way.

Verse 3

Where Thou leadest I would go, Walking in Thy steps below, Till within the heavenly fold I my Shepherd shall behold.