<h3>The Lord Is My Shepherd</h3><h3>A Psalm of David.</h3>23 <poetry>The <smallCap>Lord</smallCap> is my shepherd; I shall not want. </poetry> 2 <poetry>    He makes me lie down in green pastures.</indent> He leads me beside still waters. </poetry> 3 <poetry>    He restores my soul.</indent> He leads me in paths of righteousness <indent>for his name's sake.</indent></poetry> 4 <poetry>Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, <indent>I will fear no evil,</indent> for you are with me; <indent>your rod and your staff,</indent> <indent>they comfort me.</indent></poetry> 5 <poetry>You prepare a table before me <indent>in the presence of my enemies;</indent> you anoint my head with oil; <indent>my cup overflows.</indent> </poetry> 6 <poetry>Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me <indent>all the days of my life,</indent> and I shall dwell in the house of the <smallCap>Lord</smallCap> <indent> forever. </indent></poetry>

Psalm 23:1

The <smallCap>Lord</smallCap> is my <cr>1</cr>shepherd; I shall not <cr>2</cr>want.

He makes me lie down in green <cr>1</cr>pastures.</indent> He leads me beside still waters.<ft>1</ft>

Psalm 23:2

He <cr>1</cr>restores my soul.</indent> He <cr>2</cr>leads me in <cr>3</cr>paths of righteousness<ft>1</ft> <indent>for his <cr>4</cr>name's sake.</indent><pb/>

Psalm 23:3

Even though I <cr>1</cr>walk through the valley of <cr>2</cr>the shadow of death,<ft>1</ft> <indent>I will <cr>3</cr>fear no evil,</indent> for <cr>4</cr>you are with me; <indent>your <cr>5</cr>rod and your staff,</indent> <indent>they comfort me.</indent><pb/>

Psalm 23:4

You <cr>1</cr>prepare a table before me <indent>in <cr>2</cr>the presence of my enemies;</indent> you <cr>3</cr>anoint my head with oil; <indent>my <cr>4</cr>cup overflows.</indent>

Psalm 23:5

Surely<ft>1</ft> goodness and mercy<ft>2</ft> shall follow me <indent>all the days of my life,</indent> and I shall <cr>1</cr>dwell<ft>3</ft> in the house of the <smallCap>Lord</smallCap> <indent><cr>2</cr>forever.<ft>4</ft></indent>

Psalm 23:6

 1 The Lord is my  shepherd; I shall not  want.  2     He makes me lie down in green  pastures. He leads me beside still waters.   3     He  restores my soul. He  leads me in  paths of righteousness  for his  name's sake.  4 Even though I  walk through the valley of  the shadow of death,  I will  fear no evil, for  you are with me; your  rod and your staff, they comfort me.  5 You  prepare a table before me in  the presence of my enemies; you  anoint my head with oil; my  cup overflows.  6 Surely  goodness and mercy  shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall  dwell  in the house of the Lord  forever. 

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The English Standard Version (ESV) is an English translation of the Bible. The ESV was published in 2001 by Crossway, having been "created by a team of more than 100 leading evangelical scholars and pastors." The ESV relies on recently published critical editions of the original Hebrew and Greek texts. Crossway claim that the ESV continues a legacy begun by the Tyndale New Testament of precision and faithfulness in English translation of the original text, followed in the same standard by "the King James Version of 1611 (KJV), the English Revised Version of 1885 (RV), the American Standard Version of 1901 (ASV), and the Revised Standard Version of 1952 and 1971." Crossway describes the ESV as a translation that "emphasizes 'word-for-word' accuracy, literary excellence, and depth of meaning." Crossway also describes the ESV as a translation that adheres to an "essentially literal" translation philosophy, taking into account "differences in grammar, syntax, and idiom between current literary English and the original languages."

The ESV is derived from the 1971 text edition of the Revised Standard Version (RSV). ESV Translation Oversight Committee member Wayne Grudem claims that approximately eight percent (or about 60,000 words) of the 1971 RSV text being used for the ESV was revised as of first publication in 2001. Grudem states that the committee removed "every trace of liberal influence that had caused such criticism from evangelicals when the RSV was first published in 1952." Although, Grudem also states that much of the 1971 RSV text left unchanged by the committee "is simply 'the best of the best' of the KJV tradition."

With regard to gender language, the ESV Translation Oversight Committee state that "the goal of the ESV is to render literally what is in the original."[9] The committee expands on this position in claiming that, although the ESV avoids using gender-neutral language (for the purpose of preserving contextual meaning found in the original text), the translation does utilize gender-neutral language in specific cases. The committee further state that their objective was "transparency to the original text, allowing the reader to understand the original on its own terms rather than in the terms of our present-day Western culture."[9] The ESV Study Bible often details in its commentary why a complementarian interpretation of the original text may have been rendered in translation.

OT: Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (5th ed., 1997); additional sources in difficult cases
NT: UBS Greek New Testament (5th corrected ed.); Novum Testamentum Graece (28th ed., 2012)

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