Psalms 23:1
A psalm for David. The Lord ruleth me: and I shall want nothing.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
In Context
2He hath set me in a place of pasture. He hath brought me up, on the water of refreshment:
Cross References
Psalms 34:9O taste, and see that the Lord is sweet: blessed is the man that hopeth in him.
Psalms 34:11The rich have wanted, and have suffered hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not be deprived of any good.
Psalms 79:13But we thy people, and the sheep of thy pasture, will give thanks to thee for ever. We will shew forth thy praise, unto generation and generation.
Isaiah 40:11He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather together the lambs with his arm, and shall take them up in his bosom, and he himself shall carry them that are with young.
Jeremiah 31:10Hear the word of the Lord, O ye nations, and declare it in the islands that are afar off, and say: He that scattered Israel will gather him: and he will keep him as the shepherd doth his flock.
Ezekiel 34:14I will feed them in the most fruitful pastures, and their pastures shall be in the high mountains of Israel: there shall they rest on the green grass, and be fed in fat pastures upon the mountains of Israel.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 23:1
Many of David's psalms are full of complaints, but this is full of comforts, and the expressions of delight in God's great goodness and dependence upon him. It is a psalm which has been sung by good Christians, and will be while the world stands, with a great deal of pleasure and satisfaction. I. The psalmist here claims relation to God, as his shepherd, ver. 1 . II. He recounts his experience of the kind things God had done for him as his shepherd, ver. 2, 3 , 5 . III. Hence he infers that he should want no good… Read the whole commentary →