Psalms 23 Cross References - ISV

¹ A Davidic Psalm.
The LORD Shepherds His People The LORD is the one who is shepherding me; I lack nothing. ² He causes me to lie down in pastures of green grass; he guides me beside quiet waters. ³ He revives my life; he leads me in pathways that are righteous for the sake of his name. ⁴ Even when I walk through a valley of deep darkness, I will not be afraid because you are with me. Your rod and your staff—they comfort me. ⁵ You prepare a table before me, even in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ⁶ Truly, goodness and gracious love will pursue me all the days of my life, and I will remain in the LORD’s Temple forever.

⁹ Fear the LORD, you holy ones of his; for those who fear him lack nothing. ¹⁰ Young lions lack and go hungry, but those who seek the LORD will never lack any good thing.

⁵² Yet he led out his people like sheep, guiding them like a flock in the desert.

¹³ Then we, your people, the sheep of your pasture, will praise you always, from generation to generation. We will declare your praise.

¹¹ For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD grants grace and favor; the LORD will not withhold any good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

¹¹ Like a shepherd, he tends his flock. He gathers the lambs in his arms, carries them close to his heart, and gently leads the mother sheep.”

³ “I’ll gather the remnant of my flock from all the countries where I’ve driven them, and bring them back to their pasture where they’ll be fruitful and increase in numbers. ⁴ I’ll raise up shepherds over them, and they’ll shepherd them. My flock will no longer be afraid or terrified, and none will be missing,” declares the LORD.

¹⁰ Nations, listen to this message from the LORD, and declare it in the distant coastlands. Say, “The one who scattered Israel will gather him and keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.”

¹¹ The Coming True Shepherd“This is what the LORD says: ‘Watch me! I’m going to search for my flock. I’ll watch over them myself. ¹² Just as a shepherd looks after his flock during the day time while he is with them, so also I’m going to watch over my sheep, delivering them from every place where they’ve been scattered during the times of gloom and doom.

²³ God’s Shepherd: His Servant David“‘Then I’ll install one shepherd for them—my servant David—and he will feed them, will be there for them, and will serve as their shepherd. ²⁴ I, the LORD, will be their God, and my servant David will rule among them as Prince.’ I, the LORD, have spoken this.

² The Ruler from Bethlehem“As for you, Bethlehem of Ephrathah, even though you remain least among the clans of Judah, nevertheless, the one who rules in Israel for me will emerge from you. His existence has been from antiquity, even from eternity.

⁴ “Then he will take his stand, shepherding by means of the strength of the LORD, by the power of the name of the LORD his God. And they will be firmly established; indeed, from then on he will become great— to the ends of the earth.

³³ But first be concerned about God’s kingdom and his righteousness, and all of these things will be provided for you as well.

³⁰ because it is the unbelievers who are concerned about all these things. Surely your Father knows that you need them! ³¹ Instead, be concerned about his kingdom, and these things will be provided for you as well. ³² Stop being afraid, little flock, because your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom.

¹¹ “I’m the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

¹⁴ I’m the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me,

²⁷ My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me. ²⁸ I give them eternal life, they’ll never be lost, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. ²⁹ What my Father has given me is more important than anything, and no one can snatch it from the Father’s hand. ³⁰ I and the Father are one.”

³² The one who did not spare his own Son, but offered him as a sacrifice for all of us, surely will give us all things, along with his Son, won’t he?

¹⁹ And my God will fully supply your every need according to his glorious riches in the Messiah Jesus.

⁵ Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be content with what you have, for God has said, “I will never leave you or abandon you.” ⁶ Hence we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can anyone do to me?”

²⁰ Now may the God of peace, who by the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, the Great Shepherd of the sheep,

²⁵ You were “like sheep that kept going astray,” but now you have returned to the shepherd and overseer of your souls.

⁴ Then, when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the victor’s crown of glory that will never fade away.

¹⁷ because the lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd. He will lead them to springs filled with the water of life, and God will wipe every tear from their eyes.”

²⁹ “If he remains silent, who will condemn him? If he conceals his face, who can see him? He watches over both nation and individual alike,

⁴ Look! There is a river whose streams make the city of God rejoice, even the Holy Place of the Most High.

⁶ “Because this people have rejected the gently-flowing waters of Shiloah, and because they keep rejoicing in Rezin and Remaliah’s son,

²³ He will also provide rain for your seed that you sow in the ground, and the food that comes from the ground will be rich and abundant. At that time, your cattle will graze in broad meadows,

⁹ saying to captives, ‘Come out!’ and to those who are in darkness, ‘Be free!’ “They will feed on all the mountains, and their pasture will be on all the barren hills. ¹⁰ They won’t hunger or thirst, nor will the desert heat or sun beat upon them; for the one who has compassion on them will drive them and guide them alongside springs of water.

¹³ I’m going to bring them out from foreign nations and from foreign lands. Then I’ll bring them to their own land and feed them in Israel—on the mountains, in their valleys, and in all of their settlements throughout the land. ¹⁴ I’ll feed them in excellent pastures, and even the very heights of Israel’s mountains will serve as verdant pastures for them in which they’ll rest and feed—yes, even on the fertile mountains of Israel!

⁶ Then he told me, “It has happened! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will freely give a drink from the spring of the water of life to the one who is thirsty.

¹ The Vision of the River of the Water of LifeThen the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal. It was flowing from the throne of God and the lamb.

¹⁷ Concluding InvitationThe Spirit and the bride say, “Come!”
Let everyone who hears this say, “Come!”
Let everyone who is thirsty come!
Let anyone who wants the water of life take it as a gift!

³⁰ to bring back his soul from the Pit; to light him with the light of life.”

⁸ LORD, lead me in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your path straight before me.

⁷ God’s Revelation in the LawThe Law of the LORD is perfect, restoring life. The testimony of the LORD is steadfast, making foolish people wise.

³ For you are my rock and my fortress; for the sake of your name guide me and lead me.

³ Magnify the LORD with me! Let us lift up his name together!

¹⁰ God, create a pure heart in me, and renew a right attitude within me.

¹² Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and let a willing attitude control me.

⁹ Help us, God, our deliverer, on account of your glorious name, deliver us and forgive our sins on account of your name.

⁴ Restore us, God of our salvation, and stop being angry with us. ⁵ Will you be angry with us forever? Will you prolong your anger from generation to generation? ⁶ Will you restore our lives again so that your people may rejoice in you? ⁷ LORD, show your gracious love and deliver us.

¹³ Righteousness will go before him to prepare a path for his steps.

¹⁷⁶ I have wandered away like a lost sheep; come find your servant, for I do not forget your commands.

⁸ In the morning let me hear of your gracious love, for in you I trust. Cause me to know the way I should take, because I have set my hope on you. ⁹ Deliver me from my enemies, LORD. I have taken refuge in you. ¹⁰ Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Let your good Spirit lead me on level ground.

¹¹ I have directed you in the way of wisdom, and I have led you along straight paths.

²⁰ I walk on the way of righteousness, along paths that are just,

¹⁶ I’ll help the blind walk, even on a road they do not know; I’ll guide them in directions they do not know. I’ll turn the dark places into light in front of them, and the rough places into level ground. These are the things I will do, and I won’t abandon them.

⁸ Look, I’m bringing them from the northern region, and I’ll gather them from the farthest parts of the earth. among them will be the blind and the lame, together with the pregnant woman and the woman in labor. A large group will return here.

³⁷ I’m about to gather my people from all the lands where I’ve driven them in my anger, wrath, and great indignation. I’ll bring them back to this place and let them live in safety. ³⁸ They’ll be my people, and I’ll be their God. ³⁹ I’ll give them one heart and one lifestyle so they’ll fear me always for their own good and for the good of their descendants after them. ⁴⁰ I’ll make an everlasting covenant with them that I won’t turn away from doing good for them. I’ll put the fear of me in their hearts so they won’t turn away from me. ⁴¹ I’ll rejoice over them to do good for them, and I’ll faithfully plant them in this land with all my heart and soul.’
⁴² “Indeed, this is what the LORD says: ‘Just as I’m bringing all this great disaster on this people, so I’ll bring on them all the good things that I’m promising concerning them.

¹⁴ I did this so my reputation wouldn’t be tarnished among the nations in whose presence I had brought them out.

⁴ “I will correct their apostasy, loving them freely, since my anger will have turned away from them. ⁵ I will be like the dew to Israel; Israel will blossom like a lily, growing roots like the cedars of Lebanon. ⁶ Israel’s branches will spread out, and its beauty will be like an olive tree, with its scent like that of Lebanon. ⁷ Those who live under its protection will surely return. Their grain will flourish; they will blossom like a vine, and Israel’s scent will be like wine from Lebanon. ⁸ “Ephraim, what have I in common with idols? I have listened and will pay attention to him. I am like a flourishing cypress; in me will your fruit be found.”
⁹ Concluding CounselWhoever is wise, let him understand these things. Whoever is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right: the righteous follow his example, but the rebellious stumble in them.

⁸ Don’t be glad on my account, my enemy. When I fall, I’ll get up. Though I sit in darkness, the LORD is a light for me. ⁹ I will endure the LORD’s anger— since I have sinned against him— until he takes over my defense, administers justice on my behalf, and brings me out to the light, where I will gaze on his righteousness.

¹⁸ Who is like God?Is there any God like you, forgiving iniquity, passing over transgressions by the survivors who are your heritage? He is not angry forever, because he delights in gracious love. ¹⁹ He will again show us compassion; he will subdue our iniquities. You will hurl all their sins into the deepest sea.

³¹ Jesus Predicts Peter’s Denial
“Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has asked permission to sift all of you like wheat, ³² but I have prayed for you that your own faith may not fail. When you have come back, you must strengthen your brothers.”

⁶ so that we would praise his glorious grace that he gave us in the Beloved One.

¹⁹ I correct and discipline those whom I love, so be serious and repent!

⁵ Let darkness and deep gloom reclaim it; let clouds settle down on it; let blackness in mid-day terrify it.

²¹ before I go, never to return, leaving for the land of deep darkness and shadow. ²² It’s a gloomy land, like deepest darkness; where there’s no order, and where even the brightness is like darkness.’”

¹⁷ As a group, deep darkness is their morning time; fear that lives in darkness is their friend.”

⁶ I will not fear multitudes of people, who set themselves against me on every side.

⁵ There they are seized with terror, because God is with those who are righteous.

¹ Davidic
Confidence in the LORD The LORD is my light and my salvation— whom will I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life; of whom will I be afraid? ² When those who practice evil, my enemies, and my oppressors come near me to devour my flesh, they stumble and fall. ³ If an army encamps against me, my heart will not fear. If a war is launched against me, I will even trust in that situation. ⁴ I have asked one thing from the LORD; it is what I really seek: that I may remain in the LORD’s Temple all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD; and to inquire in his Temple.

¹⁹ Nevertheless, you crushed us in the lair of jackals, and covered us in deep darkness.

¹ To the Director: A song by the Sons of Korah, to the tune of “The Maidens”.
God is the Refuge of His People God is our refuge and strength, a great help in times of distress. ² Therefore we will not be frightened when the earth roars, when the mountains shake in the depths of the seas, ³ when its waters roar and rage, when the mountains tremble despite their pride. Interlude

¹¹ The LORD of the heavenly armies is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Interlude

² When the LORD extends your mighty scepter from Zion, rule in the midst of your enemies.

⁶ The LORD is with me. I will not be afraid. What can people do to me?

⁷ Though I walk straight into trouble, you preserve my life, stretching out your hand to fight the vehemence of my enemies, and your right hand delivers me.

⁹ “Band together, you peoples, but be shattered! Listen, all you distant countries! Strap on your armor, but be shattered. ¹⁰ Take counsel together, but it will all be for nothing; go ahead and talk, but it will all be for nothing, for God is with us.”

¹⁰ Don’t be afraid, because I’m with you; don’t be anxious, because I am your God. I keep on strengthening you; I’m truly helping you. I’m surely upholding you with my victorious right hand.”

¹ The Future Redemption of Israel But now this is what the LORD says, the one who created you, Jacob, the one who formed you, Israel: “Do not be afraid, because I’ve redeemed you. I’ve called you by name; you are mine. ² When you pass through the waters, I’ll be with you; and through the rivers, they won’t sweep over you. when you walk through fire you won’t be scorched, and the flame won’t set you ablaze.

⁶ “They didn’t ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through the land of desert and pits, through the land of dryness and deep darkness, a land that people don’t pass through, and where no one lives?’

¹⁴ Use your rod to shepherd your people, the flock that belongs to you, that lives alone in the forest of Carmel. Let them find pasture in Bashan and Gilead, as they did long ago.

²³ “This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: ‘In the future, ten men speaking all the languages of the nations will grab hold of one Jewish person by the hem of his garment and say, “Let us go up to Jerusalem with you, because we heard that God is with you.”’”

¹⁰ Then I took the staff that I had named “Pleasant” and broke it, showing I was breaking my covenant that I had made with all of the people.

¹⁴ Then I broke my second staff—the one I had named “Union”—breaking the union between the house of Judah and the house of Israel.

²³ “See, a virgin will become pregnant and give birth to a son, and they will name him Immanuel,”
which means, “God with us.”

²⁰ teaching them to obey everything that I’ve commanded you. And remember, I am with you each and every day until the end of the age.”

⁷⁹ to shine on those who sit in darkness and in death’s shadow, and to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

⁹ One night, the Lord told Paul in a vision, “Stop being afraid to speak out! Don’t remain silent! ¹⁰ For I am with you, and no one will lay a hand on you or harm you, because I have many people in this city.”

⁵⁵ “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?”
⁵⁶ Now death’s stinger is sin, and sin’s power is the Law. ⁵⁷ But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus the Messiah!

²² May the Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with all of you! Amen.

¹⁶ God is an All-Powerful and Just Teacher“Indeed, he drew you away from the brink of distress to a spacious place without constraints, filling your festive table with bountiful food.

⁵ The LORD is my inheritance and my cup; you support my lot.

²⁶ The afflicted will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the LORD will praise him, “May you live forever!”

²⁹ All the prosperous people will eat and bow down in submission. All those who are about to go down to the grave will bow down in submission, along with the one who can no longer keep himself alive.

¹⁹ How great is your goodness that you have reserved for those who fear you, that you have set in place for those who take refuge in you, in the presence of the children of men. ²⁰ You will hide them in the secret place of your presence, away from the conspiracies of men. You will hide them in your tent, away from their contentious tongues.

⁷ You love justice and hate wickedness. That is why God, even your God, has anointed you rather than your companions with the oil of gladness.

¹⁹ They spoke against God by asking, “Is God able to prepare a feast in the desert?

¹⁰ You’ve grown my strength like the horn of a wild ox; I was anointed with fresh oil.

¹⁵ like wine that makes the heart of people happy, oil that makes the face glow, and food that sustains people.

¹³ I will raise my cup of deliverance and invoke the LORD’s name.

⁶ Celebration of the Righteous“On this mountain, the LORD of the Heavenly Armies will prepare for all peoples a banquet of rich food, a banquet of well-aged wines— rich food full of marrow, and refined wines of the finest vintage

⁶ drinking wine from bowls, anointing themselves with the choicest of oils, but not grieving on the occasion of Joseph’s ruin—

¹⁷ But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face,

⁴⁶ You didn’t anoint my head with oil, but this woman has anointed my feet with perfume.

⁵³ So Jesus told them, “Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don’t have life in yourselves. ⁵⁴ Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I’ll raise him to life on the last day, ⁵⁵ because my flesh is real food, and my blood is real drink. ⁵⁶ The person who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.

⁹ I’m the gate. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved. He’ll come in and go out and find pasture. ¹⁰ The thief comes only to steal, slaughter, and destroy. I’ve come that they may have life, and have it abundantly.

²² Now you are having pain. But I’ll see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

¹⁶ The cup of blessing that we bless is our fellowship in the blood of the Messiah, isn’t it? The bread that we break is our fellowship in the body of the Messiah, isn’t it?

²¹ Now the one who makes us—and you as well—secure in union with the Messiah and has anointed us is God,

²⁰ Now to the one who can do infinitely more than all we can ask or imagine according to the power that is working among us—

²⁰ You have an anointing from the Holy One and know all things.

²⁷ The anointing you received from God abides in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you this. Instead, because God’s anointing teaches you about everything and is true and not a lie, abide in him, as he taught you to do.

¹¹ You cause me to know the path of life; in your presence is joyful abundance, at your right hand there are pleasures forever.

¹⁵ But as for me, justified, I will behold your face; when I awake, your presence will satisfy me.

⁴ He asked life from you, and you gave it to him— a long life for ever and ever.

⁴ I have asked one thing from the LORD; it is what I really seek: that I may remain in the LORD’s Temple all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD; and to inquire in his Temple.

¹¹ You have turned my mourning into dancing; you took off my sackcloth and clothed me with a garment of joy, ¹² so that I may sing praise to you and not remain silent. LORD, my God, I will give you thanks forever!

⁷ How precious is your gracious love, God! The children of men take refuge in the shadow of your wings. ⁸ They are refreshed from the abundance of your house; You cause them to drink from the river of your pleasures. ⁹ For with you is a fountain of life, and in your light we will see light. ¹⁰ Send forth your gracious love to those who know you, and your righteousness to those who are upright in heart.

²⁴ You will guide me with your wise advice, and later you will receive me with honor. ²⁵ Whom do I have in heaven but you? I desire nothing on this earth. ²⁶ My body and mind may fail, but God is my strength and my portion forever.

¹⁷ Yet the LORD’s gracious love remains throughout eternity for those who fear him and his righteous acts extend to their children’s children,

¹⁰ He has rescued us from a terrible death, and he will continue to rescue us. Yes, he is the one on whom we have set our hope, and he will rescue us again,

¹ We know that if the earthly tent we live in is torn down, we have a building in heaven that comes from God, an eternal house not built by human hands.

²³ Indeed, I cannot decide between the two. I have the desire to leave this life and be with the Messiah, for that is far better.

¹⁸ The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack and will take me safely to his heavenly kingdom. Glory belongs to him forever and ever! Amen.