The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want. Psalm 23:1 NASB 1995 Not want – How do you read this text? Do you think that David is expressing God’s sufficiency so much so that all his desires are satisfied? There’s nothing that he wants? Or is David singing about God’s provision so that he…
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. Psalm 23:1 NASB Shepherd – This is perhaps the second or third most well-known verse in the Bible. It comes somewhere in the group including Genesis 1:1 and Matthew 7:12. The only problem is that we have very little comprehension of its original meaning. It has been thoroughly converted into a…
“The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want.” Psalm 23:1 Want – But this isn’t quite right, is it? David is not speaking about my “wants”; he is speaking about what I lack. Even the NIV translation (“I shall not be in want”) still confuses the thought. What David says is this: the Shepherd…
