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2He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

Psalms 23:2

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

  • And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

  • And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country. …

  • There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.

  • And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

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…

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