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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 23:3

Restoreth my soul — i.e., refresheth, recreateth, quickeneth.

For his name’s sake. — God’s providential dealings are recognised as in accordance with His character for great graciousness.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 23:3. _HE RESTORETH MY SOUL_] Brings back my life from destruction; and converts my soul from sin, that it may not eternally perish. Or, after it has _backslidden_ from him, heals its bac...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    HE LEADETH ME BESIDE THE STILL WATERS - Margin, “waters of quietness.” Not stagnant waters, but waters not tempestuous and stormy; waters so calm, gentle, and still, as to suggest the idea of repose,...

  • 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

    RESTORETH. bringeth back, as in Psalms 19:8, JEHOVAH-ROPKEKA. App-4. SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh._ LEADETH. Hebrew. _nahal,_ to guide, conduct. PATHS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. righteous paths. JEHOVAH-ZIDKENU....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The shepherd's care as guide and guardian....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _He restoreth my soul_ Renews and sustains my life. Cp. Psalms 19:7, note. Not as P.B.V. (after the LXX and Vulg.) _he shall convert my soul_. _he leadeth me_ R.V., he guideth me: a word often used of...

  • 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

    HE RESTORETH MY SOUL, &C.— _He refresheth,_ &c. Mudge. "When I am ready to faint, he refreshes me, and brings me to life again." See Psalms 19:8. _In the paths of righteousness,_ Green renders very pr...

  • 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

    _HE RESTORETH MY SOUL: HE LEADETH ME IN THE PATHS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR HIS NAME'S SAKE._ He restoreth my soul - reviving me when fainting (Psalms 19:8), and overcome temporarily by temptations. The g...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    23:3 restoreth (d-2) Or 'reviveth.'...

  • 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

    LEADETH] RV 'guideth.' An Eastern shepherd goes before his flock. FOR HIS NAME'S SAKE] in consistency with the character which He has already made known....

  • 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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    נַפְשִׁ֥י יְשֹׁובֵ֑ב יַֽנְחֵ֥נִי בְ מַעְגְּלֵי ־צֶ֝֗דֶק...

  • 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

    He (b) restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the (c) paths of righteousness for his name's sake. (b) He comforts or refreshes me. (c) Plain or straight ways....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Place. The punishment of the Bethsamites, and of Oza, had filled all with alarm, so that David durst not introduce the ark into his palace, 1 Kings vi. 19. (Calmet) --- Though Christ created and rede...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    These are sweet verses. Jesus leads, and feeds, and waters. And this he doth night and day, lest any hurt. Feeding, takes in the whole employment of a Shepherd: Jesus hath knowledge of the persons of...

  • 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

    3._He restoreth my soul _As it is the duty of a good shepherd to cherish his sheep, and when they are diseased or weak to nurse and support them, David declares that this was the manner in which he wa...

  • 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

    HE RESTORETH MY SOUL,.... Either when backslidden, and brings it back again when led or driven away, and heals its backslidings; or rather, when fainting, swooning, and ready to die away, he fetches i...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake._ Ver. 3. _He restoreth my soul_] He reduceth me, when like a lost sheep I have gone astray, Psalms 119:176. A s...

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

    _He restoreth my soul_ Hebrew, נפשׁי ישׁובב, _naphshi jeshobeb, my soul he bringeth_, or, _will bring back_, namely, from its errors or wanderings. No creature is more ready to go astray than a sheep,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    He restoreth my soul, reviving, quickening, relieving it, when the spirits droop with weariness on account of the misery of sin and the afflictions of this world; HE LEADETH ME IN THE PATHS OF RIGHTEO...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JEHOVAH THE GOOD SHEPHERD. A psalm of David, a hymn written by David by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, an expression not only of David's personal faith and trust, but of the confidence which all...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    HE RESTORETH, Heb. _he bringeth it back_; either, 1. From its errors or wandering; or, 2. Into the body, out of which it was even departing and fainting away. He reviveth or comforteth me. Compare Ru...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 23:3 restores H7725 (H8787) soul H5315 leads H5148 (H8686) paths H4570 righteousness H6664 names H8034...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘He restores my soul (inner life). He guides me in the right paths (the paths of righteousness) for his name's sake.' Having been led to the pastures of luscious grass, and the rest-giving waters, the...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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 surp...

  • 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...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 23:1 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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    We shall view Christ in the office of a shepherd and the first passage we read sets before us faith proving Christ in that office accepting him, trusting him, following him. Psalms 23:1. _The LORD is...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Did you ever notice that the 22 nd Psalm exhibits «that great Shepherd of the sheep» as laying down his life for the sheep; that the 23 rd Psalm exhibits «the good Shepherd» with all his sheep around...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    We will first read that choicest of all the Psalms, the twenty-third. It is like a precious pearl shining with a mild lustre. This Psalm is, among the other Psalms, what the lark is among the other bi...

  • 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

    _He restoreth my soul._ THE RESTORATION OF THE SOUL 1. It implies the quickening and invigoration of the soul in seasons of depression and exhaustion. A sheep may languish from internal weakness and...

  • 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 23:3 The restoration of the SOUL indicates the returning of life or vitality (compare Psalms 19:7;...

  • 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

    Ephesians 1:6; Ezekiel 20:14; Hosea 14:4; Isaiah 42:16; Jeremiah 31:8

  • 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...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Restoreth — Heb. He bringeth it back; from its errors and wandering. For — Not for any worth in me, but for the glory of his justice, and faithfulness, and goodness....

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