Psalms 23:1
A Psalm for David on the first day of the week. 1 The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof; 1 The world, and all that dwell in it. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
In Context
2He has founded it upon the seas, 1 And prepared it upon the rivers. 1
Cross References
Psalms 34:9But my soul shall exult in the Lord: 1 It shall delight in his salvation. 1
Psalms 34:11Unjust witnesses arose, and asked me of things I knew not. 1
Psalms 79:13Wherefore hast thou broken down its hedge, 1 While all that pass by the way pluck it? 1
Isaiah 40:11He shall tend his flock as a shepherd, and he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and shall soothe them that are with young.
Jeremiah 31:10Cursed is the man that does the works of the Lord carelessly, keeping back his sword from blood.
Ezekiel 34:14I will feed them in a good pasture, on a high mountain of Israel: and their folds shall be there, and they shall lie down, and there shall they rest in perfect prosperity, and they shall feed in a fat pasture on 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 →