The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 23:1
Human experience and Divine inspiration. "The Lord is my Shepherd." The few verses which compose this psalm would leave but a small blank on the page, if blotted out; but suppose all translations which have been made of them into all languages, all references to them in literature, all remembrance of them in human hearts, could be effaced, who can measure the blank, the void, the loss? To have written this short psalm is one of the highest honours ever put upon man. What libraries have... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 23:1
The Lord is my Shepherd . This metaphor, so frequent in the later Scriptures ( Isaiah 40:11 ; Isaiah 49:9 , Isaiah 49:10 ; Jeremiah 31:10 ; Ezekiel 34:6-19 ; John 10:11-19 , John 10:26-28 ; Hebrews 13:20 ; 1 Peter 2:25 ; 1 Peter 5:4 ; Revelation 7:17 ), is perhaps implied in Genesis 48:15 , but first appears, plainly and openly, in the Davidical psalms (see, besides the present passage, Psalms 74:1 ; Psalms 77:20 ; Psalms 78:53 ; Psalms 79:1-13 :14; Psalms... read more