Today's Scripture reading

W.W. Smith added this at the end of his The New Testament in Braid Scots --

The Twenty-third Psaum

The Lord is my Shepherd; my wants are a' kent; the pasture I lie on is growthy and green.

I follow by the lip of the watirs o' Peace.

He heals and sterklie hauds my saul; and airts me, for his ain name's sake, in a' the fit-roads o' his holiness.

Aye, and though I bude gang throwe the howe whaur the deid-shadows fa', I'se fear nae skaith nor ill, for that yersel is aye aside me; yere rod and yere cruik they defend me.

My table ye ha' plenish't afore the een o' my faes; my heid ye hae chrystit wi' oyle; my cup is teemin fu'!

And certes, tenderness and mercie sal be my fa' to the end o' my days; and syne I'se bide i' the hoose o' the Lord, for evir and evir mair!