Psalms 23:1

_THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD; I SHALL NOT WANT._ Psalms 23:1 -The Lord's Shepherd-like Care for His People. The image (Psalms 23:1); the reality, the spritual history of even redeemed, one (Psalms 23:3). The 22nd, 23rd, and 24th Psalms form a Trilogy: Psalms 22:1, Christ on the cross; Psalms 23:1, God the Father's Shepherd-like care of Him, even in dying, and His anticipation of heaven; Psalms 24:1, His ascension there. So Christ's followers ...

1._Jehovah is my shepherd. _Although God, by his benefits, gently allures us to himself, as it were by a taste of his fatherly sweetness, yet there is nothing into which we more easily fall than into a forgetfulness of him, when we are in the enjoyment of peace and comfort. Yea, prosperity not only so intoxicates many, as to carry them beyond all bounds in their mirth, but it also engenders insolence, which makes them proudly rise up and break forth against God. Accordingly, there is scarcely a hundredth part of those who enjoy in abundance the good things of God, who keep themselves in his fear, and live in the exercise of humility and temperance, which would be so becoming. (531) For this reason, we ought the more carefully to mark the example which is here set before us by David, who, elevated to the dignity of sovereign power, surrounded with the splendor of riches and honors, posses...

PSALM XXIII _The Lord is the Pastor of his people; therefore it may be_ _inferred that they shall not want_, 1. _How he guides, feeds, and protects them_, 2, 3. _Even in the greatest dangers they may be confident of his_ _support_, 4. _His abundant provision for them_, 5. _The confidence they may have of his continual mercy, and their_ _eternal happiness_, 6. NOTES ON PSALM XXIII There is nothing particular in the _title_; it is simply attributed to _David_; but as it appears to be a thanksgiving of the Israelites

THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - Compare Genesis 49:24, “From thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel;” Psalms 80:1, “Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel.” See also the notes at John 10:1. The comparison of the care which God extends over his people to that of a shepherd for his flock is one that would naturally occur to those who were accustomed to pastoral life. It would be natural that it should suggest itself to Jacob Genesis 49:24, and to David, for both of them had been shepherds. David, in advanced years, would naturally remember the occupations of his early life; and the remembrance of the care of God over him wou

EXPOSITION THIS little psalm is an idyll of great beauty, describing the peace and calm delight which dwell with one whose trust is wholly in God. David's authorship, asserted in the title, is highly probable; but we cannot fix the poem to any special period in his lifetime; we can only say that he is beyond the days of boyhood, having already enemies (Psalms 23:5), and that he has known what it is to be in danger of death (Psalms 23:4). But, when he writes, he is experiencing a time of rest and refreshment (Psalms 23:1), nay, of prosperity and abundance (Psalms 23:5). His thoughts are happy thoughts—he lacks nothi

THE LORD [IS] MY SHEPHERD,.... This is to be understood not of Jehovah the Father, and of his feeding the people of Israel in the wilderness, as the Targum paraphrases it, though the character of a shepherd is sometimes given to him, Psalms 77:20; but of Jehovah the Son, to whom it is most frequently ascribed, Genesis 49:24. This office he was called and appointed to by his Father, and which through his condescending grace he undertook to execute, and for which he is abundantly qualified; being omniscient, and so knows all his sheep and their maladies, where to find them, what is their case, and what is to be done for them; and being omnipotent, he can do everything proper for them; and having all power in heaven and in earth, can protect, defend, and save them; and all the treasures of wisdom and knowledg

We shall view Christ in the office of a shepherd and the first passage we read sets before us faith proving Christ in that office accepting him, trusting him, following him. Psalms 23:1. _The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters._ Can you say that for yourself, dear friend? There is the sweetness of it. The words in themselves are noble, but it is the experimental acquaintance with their meaning which is the real honey of life. If thou canst use these words, and lay the emphasis upon the personal pronoun, thou art one of the happiest out of heaven. Psalms 23:3. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his namesake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the

Psalms 23 Christ, the Great Shepherd _ 1. Assurance (Psalms 23:1)_ 2. Comfort (Psalms 23:4) Psalms 1:1; Psalms 2:1; Psalms 3:1. Well has it been said “without Psalms 22:1, there could be no Twenty-third Psalm.” While the former Psalm reveals Christ as the good Shepherd, who gives His life for the sheep, this Psalm makes Him known as the great Shepherd of the sheep, whom the Go

XXIII. YAHWEH AS SHEPHERD (PSALMS 23:1) AND HOST (PSALMS 23:5_ F_.). Psalms 23:2_ b._ waters of rest as in _mg._ Psalms 23:3. Read, right paths: the metaphor is still maintained. Psalms 23:4_ a_. Read _mg._ Psalms 23:4_ b_. The staff supports, the rod protects....

TITLE.. PSALM. See App-65. See note on title of Psalms 22. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ THE LORD... MY SHEPHERD. One of the Jehovah Titles. See App-4, "Jehovah-Ro'i". Figures of Speech. _Metaphor and Anthropopatheia._ App-6. NOT WANT. Because "Jehovah will provide", Jehovah-Jireh. See App-4....