Psalm 23

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Psalm 23

A psalm of David.

¹The Lord is my shepherd,^(A) I lack nothing.^(B)
²    He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,^(C)
³    he refreshes my soul.^(D)
He guides me^(E) along the right paths^(F)
    for his name’s sake.^(G)
⁴Even though I walk
    through the darkest valley,^[a]^(H)
I will fear no evil,^(I)
    for you are with me;^(J)
your rod and your staff,
    they comfort me.

⁵You prepare a table^(K) before me
    in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil;^(L)
    my cup^(M) overflows.
⁶Surely your goodness and love^(N) will follow me
    all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord
    forever.

Footnotes

Psalm 23:4 Or the valley of the shadow of death

Exodus 2:15-25

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¹⁵When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill^(A) Moses, but Moses fled^(B) from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian,^(C) where he sat down by a well. ¹⁶Now a priest of Midian^(D) had seven daughters, and they came to draw water^(E) and fill the troughs^(F) to water their father’s flock. ¹⁷Some shepherds came along and drove them away, but Moses got up and came to their rescue^(G) and watered their flock.^(H)

¹⁸When the girls returned to Reuel^(I) their father, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”

¹⁹They answered, “An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock.”

²⁰“And where is he?” Reuel asked his daughters. “Why did you leave him? Invite him to have something to eat.”^(J)

²¹Moses agreed to stay with the man, who gave his daughter Zipporah^(K) to Moses in marriage. ²²Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom,^[a]^(L) saying, “I have become a foreigner^(M) in a foreign land.”

²³During that long period,^(N) the king of Egypt died.^(O) The Israelites groaned in their slavery^(P) and cried out, and their cry^(Q) for help because of their slavery went up to God. ²⁴God heard their groaning and he remembered^(R) his covenant^(S) with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. ²⁵So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned^(T) about them.

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Footnotes

Exodus 2:22 Gershom sounds like the Hebrew for a foreigner there.

1 Peter 2:9-12

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⁹But you are a chosen people,^(A) a royal priesthood,^(B) a holy nation,^(C) God’s special possession,^(D) that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.^(E) ¹⁰Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God;^(F) once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

Living Godly Lives in a Pagan Society

¹¹Dear friends,^(G) I urge you, as foreigners and exiles,^(H) to abstain from sinful desires,^(I) which wage war against your soul.^(J) ¹²Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds^(K) and glorify God^(L) on the day he visits us.