Psalm 23:3-6

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 23:4

Through the valley of the shadow of death; through a dark and dismal valley, full of terrors and dangers, as this phrase signifies, Job 24:17; Psalms 44:19; Psalms 107:10,Psalms 107:14; Jeremiah 2:6. I will fear no evil; I will not give way to my fears, but confidently rely upon God. Thy rod and thy staff; two words noting the same thing, and both designing God’s pastoral care over him, expressed by the sign and instrument of it. They comfort me; the consideration thereof supports me under all... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 23:5

Thou furnishest me with plenty and variety of provisions and comforts, mine enemies seeing, and envying, and fretting at it, but not being able to hinder it. With oil; or, ointment, as the Syriac and Arabic interpreters render it; with aromatical ointments, which were then used at great feasts, Psalms 92:10; Amos 6:6; Matthew 6:17; Luke 7:38. The sense is, Thy comforts delight my soul: compare Psalms 45:7. My cup runneth over; thou hast given me a very plentiful portion, signified by the cup... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 23:6

Goodness and mercy, i.e. God’s favour, and the blessed and comfortable effects and benefits of it. Shall follow me; by which emphatical expression he signifies God’s admirable freeness and readiness to do good to his people, and his preventing them with blessings. All the days of my life; which he justly concludes from the former instances of God’s favour to him because of the unchangeableness of God’s nature, and the stability of his covenant and promises. Whereas I have formerly been driven... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Psalms 23:1-6

INTRODUCTION“The king who had been the shepherd-boy, and had been taken from the quiet sheepcotes to rule over Israel, sings this little psalm of Him who is the true Shepherd and King of men. We do not know at what period of David’s life it was written, but it sounds as if it were the work of his later years. There is a fulness of experience about it, and a tone of subdued, quiet confidence which speaks of a heart mellowed by years, and of a faith made sober by many a trial. A young man would... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 23:1-3

Psalms 23:1-3 The whole sentiment and scenery of this poem seems to prove, by accumulative evidence, that it was written at the time when the forty-second Psalm was written: when David had taken refuge from Absalom among the wide uplands which lie around the city of Mahanaim. I. This poem is impregnated with one feeling: the feeling of trust in God. The illustration of this trust is taken from pastoral life. The case of the Oriental shepherd and the trustfulness of the sheep furnish a symbol to... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 23:1-6

Psalms 23:0 This Psalm falls into two halves, in both of which the same general thought of God's guardian care is presented, though under different illustrations, and with some variety of detail. The first half sets Him forth as a Shepherd, and us as the sheep of His pasture. The second gives Him as the Host and us as the guests at His table and the dwellers in His house. I. First, consider that picture of the Divine Shepherd and His leading of His flock. It occupies the first four verses of... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 23:3

Psalms 23:3 It is very pleasant to walk on the bank of the still waters. But still waters have their dangers. He who wrote this Psalm had found one "in an evening tide." Therefore no one need be surprised at that otherwise strange order of thought. "He leadeth me by the still waters; He restoreth my soul." I. It is a true and high name of Jesus the Restorer. When this earth became the wandering one of the flock of worlds, it was He who travelled after it so far, and went so deeply into all its... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 23:4

Psalms 23:4 I. The place where the words come in the Psalm would of itself be sufficient to refute that interpretation. The Psalm is a series of pictures of a believer's life and confidences, and after "the valley of the shadow of death" come the prepared table, and the anointed head, and the mantling cup, and goodness and mercy following to the end, and then the death, or rather no death at all, for it is leapt over, or left out as almost a thing which is not. "Surely goodness and mercy shall... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 23:4-6

Psalms 23:4-6 I. David's refuge in the valley of the shadow of death was faith in God, the ever-near. David had entered the valley of the shadow of death of the heart. He had been betrayed, insulted, exiled, by the one whom he had loved best. It was enough to make him disbelieve in Divine goodness and human tenderness, enough to harden his heart into steel against God, into cruelty against man. In noble faith he escaped from that ruin of the soul and threw himself upon God: "I will fear no... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 23:5

Psalms 23:5 I. The table here comes in after the valley of sadness. Is there not a preparation even in that fact? When do we so want the table as when we have just been through severe experiences? It is true spiritually, as it is physically, and it is the law of God's government, "If any man do not work, neither let him eat." The table follows the valley. II. What is the prepared table? I should by no means exclude from the answer the ordinary supply of our daily meals. There is the... read more

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