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**Title. A Psalm.** See App-65 . See note on title of [Psalms 22](../../../kjv/psalms/22) .
**The LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.*
**The LORD ... my shepherd.** One of the Jehovah Titles. See App-4 , "Jehovah-Ro'i". Figures of Speech. *Metaphor and Anthropopatheia.* App-6 .
**not want.** Because "Jehovah will provide", Jehovah-Jireh. See App-4 .

**maketh me** = causeth me (implying continuance).
**lie down.** We need *making* so as to feed, and not trample the pastures down.
**green pastures** = choice pastures. Hebrew "pastures of tender grass".
**leadeth me** = causeth me to rest. Hebrew. *nahal,* to lead flocks.
**still waters.** Hebrew "waters of rests", JEHOVAH-SHALOM. App-4 .

**restoreth** = bringeth back, as in [Psalms 19:8](../../../kjv/psalms/19/8) , JEHOVAH-ROPKEKA. App-4 .
**soul.** Hebrew. *nephesh.*
**leadeth.** Hebrew. *nahal,* to guide, conduct.
**paths of righteousness** = righteous paths. JEHOVAH-ZIDKENU. App-4 .
**name's** = own. See note on [Psalms 20:1](../../../kjv/psalms/20/1) .

**Yea** = Moreover.
**through.** Not into; but "through", and out of it, into resurrection life.
**valley, &c.** = a valley of deep shade: may include (but not necessarily) death's dark valley.
**evil.** Hebrew. *ra'a'.* App-44 .
**Thou art with me.** JEHOVAH-SHAMMAH. App-4 .
**rod and . . . staff** = club and . . . crook. The only two things carried by the shepherd; the former for defense, the latter for help. The club for the sheep's enemies, the crook for the sheep's defense. A lesson for pastors to-day.
**comfort** = gently lead. Same word as "leadeth" in [Psalms 23:2](../../../kjv/psalms/23/2) .

**preparest** = settest in order.
**table.** Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Subject), App-6 , for what is on it. So that I may feast while He fights. JEHOVAH-NISSI. App-4 . The figure of the sheep is continued: for the "table" of [Psalms 23:5](../../../kjv/psalms/23/5) answers to the "pastures" of [Psalms 23:2](../../../kjv/psalms/23/2) .
**enemies** = adversaries.
**anointest.** JEHOVAH-MEKADDISHKEM. App-4 . Still referring to the sheep and the Shepherd's care: for the figure of the "sheep" is carried right through the Psalm.
**cup:** i.e. the Shepherd's cup of water for the sheep.
**runneth over.** See note on [Psalms 73:10](../../../kjv/psalms/73/10) .

**mercy** = lovingkindness, or grace.
**follow** = = follow after, or closely. In Hebrew present put for future.
**for ever** = evermore. Hebrew "to length of days".

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