In 1641, the English lawyer and politician, Francis Rous, published a metrical paraphrase of the bible verse in a new Book of Psalms, during the reign of Oliver Cromwell. Nine years later, Rous ...

Timothy Dudley-Smith, author of “Tell Out, My Soul,” “Lord, for the Years,” “Sing a New Song,” and more than 400 other hymns, died in Cambridge, England, on August 12. He was 97.