Psalms 23:1
A Psalme of David. The Lord is my shepheard, I shall not want.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
In Context
2He maketh me to rest in greene pasture, and leadeth me by the still waters.
Cross References
Psalms 34:9Feare the Lord, ye his Saintes: for nothing wanteth to them that feare him.
Psalms 34:11Come children, hearken vnto me: I will teache you the feare of the Lord.
Psalms 79:13So wee thy people, and sheepe of thy pasture shall praise thee for euer: and from generation to generation we will set foorth thy praise.
Isaiah 40:11He shall feede his flocke like a shepheard: he shall gather the lambes with his arme, and cary them in his bosome, and shall guide them with young.
Jeremiah 31:10Heare the worde of the Lord, O ye Gentiles, and declare in the yles afarre off, and say, Hee that scattered Israel, wil gather him and wil keepe him, as a shepheard doeth his flocke.
Ezekiel 34:14I will feede them in a good pasture, and vpon the hie mountaines of Israel shall their folde be: there shall they lie in a good folde and in fat pasture shall they feede vpon the mountaines 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 →