Commentaries Dictionaries Concordances

Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Psalms 23:6

Surely goodness and mercy, the greatest good fortune in the possession of the grace of Jehovah, shall follow me all the days of my life, in everything pertaining to both body and soul the way of the Lord is always gracious and merciful, is always the best; and I will dwell in the house of the Lord, in the midst of the church of Jehovah, as a member of the congregation of saints, forever, here in time, in the Kingdom of Grace, and hereafter in eternity, in the Kingdom of Glory; for the home of everlasting glory awaits all true believers above, John 14:2; Revelation 21:1. It is theirs even now, by faith.

Continues after advertising

See also Psalms 23:6 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 23:6. _GOODNESS AND MERCY SHALL FOLLOW ME_] As I pass on through the vale of life, thy goodness and mercy shall follow my every step; as I proceed, so shall they. There seems to be an al...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    SURELY GOODNESS AND MERCY SHALL FOLLOW ME - God will bestow them upon me. This is the “result” of what is stated in the previous verses. The effect of God’s merciful dealings with him had been to lead...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Psalms 23 Christ, the Great Shepherd _ 1. Assurance (Psalms 23:1)_ 2. Comfort (Psalms 23:4) Psalms 1:1;...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    XXIII. YAHWEH AS SHEPHERD (PSALMS 23:1) AND HOST (PSALMS 23:5_ F_.). Psalms 23:2_ b._ waters of rest as in _mg._ Psalms 23:3

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    MERCY. lovingkindness, or grace. FOLLOW. = follow after, or closely. In Hebrew present put for future. FOR EVER. evermore. Hebrew "to length of days"....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Surely_ Or, as R.V. marg., only. Nothing but goodness and mercy _shall pursue me_. What a contrast to the lot of the wicked man, pursued by the angel of judgment (Psalms 35:6), hunted by calamity (Ps...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The figure is changed. Jehovah is now described as the host who bountifully entertains the Psalmist at his table, and provides him with a lodging in his own house, as Oriental monarchs entertained tho...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 528 DAVID’S CONFIDENCE IN GOD Psalms 23:1. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND I WILL DWELL IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD FOR EVER— i.e. "In return to thee for these thy favours and blessings, I will be as constantly in the tabernacle at the hours of divine service, as if it were...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 23 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE The All-Sufficiency of Jehovah. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 23:1-3 a, As Shepherd; Stanza II., Psalms 23:3 b,...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _SURELY GOODNESS AND MERCY SHALL FOLLOW ME ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE: AND I WILL DWELL IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD FOR EVER._ Surely goodness, х_ 'AK_ (H389)] - rather, 'only;' i:e., nothing but goodness....

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    23:6 Surely (f-1) Or 'Only.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    This is a Ps. of simple and unclouded confidence in God, who is described first as a shepherd (Psalms 23:1) and next as an host (Psalms 23:5). The beautiful imagery of the first part would be natural...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    GOODNESS and MERCY, like two angels, 'pursue' the Psalmist, determined, as it were, to run him down. FOR EVER] lit. 'for length of days,' referring to prolonged earthly life rather than to life beyond...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I WILL DWELL. — As the text stands it must be translated _I will return_ (_and abide_)_ in the house of Jehovah._ THE HOUSE OF THE LORD can hardly be anything but the Temple; though some commentators...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אַ֤ךְ ׀ טֹ֤וב וָ חֶ֣סֶד יִ֭רְדְּפוּנִי כָּל ־

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 23:1 THE world could spare many a large book better than this sunny little psalm. It has dried many tears and supplied the mould into which many hearts have poured their peaceful faith. To supp...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE SONG OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD Psalms 23:1 A sabbatic rest breathes through this psalm, the children's favorite; while the oldest and holiest confess that it touches an experience which still lies _b...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In the Messianic application this psalm properly follows that in which the work of the Christ as Saviour is portrayed. It is to those whom He has won through His passion that He becomes known as the S...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the (g) house of the LORD for ever. (g) He does not set his happiness in the pleasures of this world, but in the...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    PSALM XXIII. (DOMINI EST TERRA.) Who they are that shall ascend to heaven: Christ's triumphant ascension thither. The face. Hebrew, "Thy face, O Jacob, always." (St. Jerome) --- Protestants (margina...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Blessed conclusion to a blessed frame of mind, when a soul is well founded in the covenant righteousness of God his Saviour; can look up to God as his Father, Jesus as his never-failing Shepherd, and...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    Psalms 22 _ Proper Psalm for Good Friday_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 22, 23 = _ Day 4_ (_Evening_)....

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    6._Surely goodness and mercy. _Having recounted the blessings which God had bestowed upon him, he now expresses his undoubted persuasion of the continuance of them to the end of his life. But whence p...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 23 AND 24. Psalms 23, 24 go in a certain sense by themselves, giving the perfect confidence in the Shepherd, Jehovah, founded on the experience of what He is in...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    SURELY GOODNESS AND MERCY SHALL FOLLOW ME,.... Either the free grace, love, favour, and mercy of God in Christ, which endures continually, and is always the same from everlasting to everlasting; or th...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever. Ver. 6. _Surely goodness and mercy, &c._] _Utique bonitas et beneficentia,_ or,...

  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    Psa. 23:6. "I will dwell," etc. Being there not merely as a servant, or as a guest kindly entertained for a little while, but as a child adopted into the family. For, as Christ says, "The Son abideth...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Surely goodness and mercy_ That is, God's favour, and the blessed and comfortable effects of it; _shall follow me_ Hebrew, ירדפוני, _jirdepuni, shall pursue me_, by which emphatical expression he sig...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    FOREVER: _ Heb._ to length of days...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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 t...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 23:6 goodness H2896 mercy H2617 follow H7291 (H8799) days H3117 life H2416 dwell H3427 (H8804) house...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘Surely goodness and lovingkindness will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of YHWH for ever.' And accompanying the shepherd are His two faithful ‘sheepdogs', ‘Goodness''...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 23:6 _(with Isaiah 52:12)_ These two passages are the expression by different men, in different ages, of the same religious confidence, namely, confidence in an unseen Presence shielding from...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 23:4 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, ex...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 23 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 f...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    I hope we all know this Psalm by heart, may we also know it by heart-experience! It is a sweet pastoral song just suited to our Sabbath evening worship. There is here no din of arms, no noise of war;...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: David sees Jehovah as his good shepherd. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Jehovah is with (Psalms 23:1) under (Psalms 23:2) beside (Psalms 23:2) after ...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    VERSE. 2. _The still waters._ The refreshing or abundant waters; the waters of Shiloh, which flow softly. Psalms 23:3. _He restoreth my soul._ Symmachus reads ανεκτησατο με, he refreshes me, or renov...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me._ A GOOD MAN’S THOUGHTS IN HIS OLD AGE The Psalm itself consists of two pictures--what we call “the shepherd,” and what we should not err in calling “the ki...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The Lord is my Shepherd._ EXEGESIS OF THE PSALM This Psalm, so personal and tender in its tone, may be called a lyric; and its reference to shepherd life makes it a pastoral; and being such, it beco...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 23:1. This psalm describes God in two ways: as the Shepherd who cares for the sheep (vv. Psalms 23:1), and as the Host who cares for his guest

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 23:5 PREPARE A TABLE. The psalm now describes the faithful person as God’s guest at a meal. The ENEMIES are powerless to prevent the enjoyment of God’s generous hospitality. For a...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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 n...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THIS little psalm is an idyll of great beauty, describing the peace and calm delight which dwell with one whose trust is wholly in God. David's authorship, asserted in the title, is highly...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Psa 23:1-6, the prayer of David, or a psalm of David, rather. And it is a psalm in which he sees God in three aspects. He sees God first as a shepherd; secondly as a guide; and thirdly as a host. Ther...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Corinthians 1:10; 2 Corinthians 5:1; 2 Timothy 4:18; Philippians 1:23;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE SHEPHERD PSALM Psalms 23:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It is the purpose of today's study to throw us more completely into the arms of the Living God. Our chapter, Psalms 23:1, we have read because it b...

Continues after advertising