Psalms 23:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

Psalms 23:1 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Philippians 4:19
But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
John 10:11
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
Isaiah 40:11
He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
John 10:27-30
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: …
John 10:14
I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.

Topics

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-6)

From three very comfortable premises David, in this psalm, draws three very comfortable conclusions, and teaches us to do so too. We are saved by hope, and that hope will not make us ashamed, because it is well grounded. It is the duty of Christians to encourage themselves in the Lord their God; and we are here directed to take that encouragement both from the relation wherein he stands to us and…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

Psa 23:1-6. Under a metaphor borrowed from scenes of pastoral life, with which David was familiar, he describes God’s providential care in providing refreshment, guidance, protection, and abundance, and so affording grounds of confidence in His perpetual favor. 1. Christ’s relation to His people is often represented by the figure of a shepherd (Joh 10:14; He 13:20; 1Pe 2:25; 5:4), and therefore th…