A reflection on the earliest modern English versions of Psalm 23, found in the pewsheet for the fourth Sunday of Easter (Good Shepherd), St. Peter’s Eastern Hill, the 26 th of April, 2026 “The Lord is my shepherd; I can want nothing.” This year is the 500 th anniversary of William Tyndale’s translation of the New Testament, published only a decade before the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536. Some of his versions of Books of the Old Testament have survived, though he was put to death before completion of that task. “He feedeth me in a green pasture, and leadeth me to a fresh water.” We glimpse Tyndale in the unsigned Matthew Bible (1537), brought out a year after his execution in the Netherlands. Fellow Protestant translator Miles Coverdale included all available Tyndale translations and was himself a collaborator with Tyndale on the Pentateuch. Some of those translations were still in manuscript. “He quickeneth my soul, and bringeth...