William Kethe

All People that on earth do dwell

Words: From Four­score and Sev­en Psalms of Da­vid (Ge­ne­va, Switz­er­land: 1561); at­trib­ut­ed to William Kethe. Died: June 6, 1594, Dorsetshire, England.

Kethe was a Scotch cler­gy­man who spent a great deal of time in ex­ile for his faith. He lived in both Frank­furt, Ger­ma­ny, and Ge­ne­va, Switz­er­land, and helped trans­late the Ge­ne­va Bi­ble in 1560. Two do­zen of his hymns ap­peared in the Anglo-Ge­ne­van Psalt­er of 1561. He re­turned to Eng­land and served as vi­car at Childe Ok­e­ford, Dor­set­shire (1561-1593), and as a mil­i­tary chap­lain under the Earl of War­wick at Havre.