Psalms 23:1

David confesses that Yahweh is his shepherd, so he lacks nothing. Trust in God's care is the foundation of the psalm.

Cross-references · 23

• Phil 4:19And my God will supply all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus.
• John 10:11I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.
• Isa 40:11He tends His flock like a shepherd; He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart. He gently leads the nursing ewes.
• John 10:27–30My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.
• John 10:14I am the good shepherd. I know My sheep and My sheep know Me,
• Rev 7:17For the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd. ‘He will lead them to springs of living water,’ and ‘God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’”
• Matt 6:33But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
• 1 Pet 2:25For “you were like sheep going astray,” but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
• Ezek 34:11–12For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I Myself will search for My flock and seek them out.
• Heb 13:5–6Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”
• Ps 34:9–10Fear the LORD, you His saints, for those who fear Him lack nothing.
• 1 Pet 5:4And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that will never fade away.
• Ezek 34:23–24I will appoint over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them. He will feed them and be their shepherd.
• Ps 84:11For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.
• Rom 8:32He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?
• Luke 12:30–32For the Gentiles of the world strive after all these things, and your Father knows that you need them.
• Heb 13:20Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,
• Mic 5:4He will stand and shepherd His flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majestic name of the LORD His God. And they will dwell securely, for then His greatness will extend to the ends of the earth.
• Ps 78:52He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.
• Jer 23:3–4Then I Myself will gather the remnant of My flock from all the lands to which I have banished them, and I will return them to their pasture, where they will be fruitful and multiply.
• Jer 31:10Hear, O nations, the word of the LORD, and proclaim it in distant coastlands: “The One who scattered Israel will gather them and keep them as a shepherd keeps his flock.
• Ps 79:13Then we Your people, the sheep of Your pasture, will thank You forever; from generation to generation we will declare Your praise.
• Mic 5:2But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come forth for Me One to be ruler over Israel—One whose origins are of old, from the days of eternity.

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