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Psalm 23

A Psalm of David.

The Lord is my Shepherd [to feed, guide, and shield me], I shall not lack.

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May grace (God’s favor) and peace (which is [a]perfect well-being, all necessary good, all spiritual prosperity, and [b]freedom from fears and agitating passions and moral conflicts) be multiplied to you in [the full, personal, [c]precise, and correct] knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

For His divine power has bestowed upon us all things that [are requisite and suited] to life and godliness, through the [[d]full, personal] knowledge of Him Who called us by and to His own glory and excellence (virtue).

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 1:2 Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Holy Bible.
  2. 2 Peter 1:2 Webster’s New International Dictionary offers this as a definition of “peace.”
  3. 2 Peter 1:2 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament.
  4. 2 Peter 1:3 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament.

May blessing (praise, laudation, and eulogy) be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) Who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual (given by the Holy Spirit) blessing in the heavenly realm!

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