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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 23 A Psalm of David. Thus psalm was written by David, either when he was in distressed circumstances, being persecuted by Saul, and was in the forest of Hareth, 1 Samuel 22:5; as some think (r); wherefore he comforts himself with the Lord's being his shepherd, so that he should not want; nor would he fear, was he in worse...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
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...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want. How can a sheep want when it has a good and wise shepherd able and willing to provide for it: and how can a believer want when he has God himself, the ever-gracious and omnipotent Lord of all, to forestall his needs and to prevent him from ever knowing what want means? David does not say, “I shall have...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD is my Shepherd; — What a precious title the psalmist used in speaking of his God! It is right to call the Lord a Shepherd. “The Shepherd of Israel” is a very blessed and true title for him, but “my Shepherd” is best of all. I wish beloved, that each of you would truthfully say, with David, “’The Lord is my Shepherd.’ He owns me; and as I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD is my shepherd; All true rest begins with Jesus, as all the comfort of the sheep is provided for their by their shepherd. “The Lord is my shepherd.” Is it so? Canst thou look up, poor defenseless sheep, and say, “The Lord is my shepherd”? Then comes the blessed inference: — Psa_23:1. I shall not want. I do not want, I cannot want; I never...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 1. The Lord is my shepherd. What condescension is this, that the infinite Lord assumes towards his people the office and character of a Shepherd! It should be the subject of grateful admiration that the great God allows himself to be compared to anything which will set forth his great love and care for his own people. David had himself been a...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures,.... Or "pastures of tender grass" (t); this is one part of the shepherd's work, and which is performed by Christ, Ezekiel 34:14; by these "green pastures" may be meant the covenant of grace, its blessings and promises, where there is delicious feeding; likewise the fulness of grace in Christ, from whence...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the path of righteousness for his name’s sake. Here are four blessed things that the Lord does for the believer. “He maketh me to lie down:” he gives me rest, perfect rest and he gives me so much spiritual provision that I am...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: Here is blessed rest, and here is also gracious provision for the needs of the sheep. The pasture is sweet and tender, and there is so much of the green grass that it cannot all be eaten, and the superabundance makes a soft bed for the tired sheep: “He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.” Repose, O...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness — “In each one of them; he is my Exemplar in every virtue, for he himself has endured all temptations that are incident to my life’s pathway; and, all the way, ‘he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness’” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: I am so weak that I even need God’s help to enable me to lie down, but “He maketh me to lie down.” Yes, the rest of the soul is so hard to attain that nobody ever does reach it except by the power of God. He who made the heavens must make us to lie down if we are really to rest. What delightful rest it...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He restoreth my soul,.... Either when backslidden, and brings it back again when led or driven away, and heals its backslidings; or rather, when fainting, swooning, and ready to die away, he fetches it back again, relieves, refreshes, and comforts with the discoveries of his love, with the promises of his word, and with the consolations of his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his namesake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil, my cup runneth over....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For his name’s sake. “Not because of any goodness in me, but because of the goodness that is in him, and for the glory of his holy name, ‘he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness.’” “Also, ‘He restoreth my soul.’ When I wander, he restores my soul to the right road. When I become empty, he stores my soul again with good things; he restoreth my...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He restoreth my soul: He can do it at once. He restoreth now. He is a restoring God. “He restoreth my soul.” He brings my wandering spirit back when I forsake his ways; and having done that, he leads me, even more carefully than before, for a second time we have the psalmist’s declaration, “He leadeth me.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: Though death’s shadow hovers all around me, and damps my spirit, though I feel as though I must die, and cannot bear up under present trial any longer, “Yea, though I walk,” for I do walk I will not...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,.... Which designs not a state of spiritual darkness and ignorance, as sitting in the shadow of death sometimes does, since the psalmist cannot be supposed to be at this time or after in such a condition; see Isaiah 9:2; nor desertion or the hidings of God's face, which is sometimes the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yea, though I walk- Yes, though I walk, not only though I shall walk, but though I do walk now- Psa_23:4. Through the valley of the shadow of death, Though, long before I die, I seem to learn what death means in the cold chill that takes hold upon my spirit, and freezes all my joy, — Psa_23:4. I will fear no evil; for thou art with me; thy rod and...