Psalms 23 Cross References - BBE

¹ A Psalm. Of David. The Lord takes care of me as his sheep; I will not be without any good thing. ² He makes a resting-place for me in the green fields: he is my guide by the quiet waters. ³ He gives new life to my soul: he is my guide in the ways of righteousness because of his name. ⁴ Yes, though I go through the valley of deep shade, I will have no fear of evil; for you are with me, your rod and your support are my comfort. ⁵ You make ready a table for me in front of my haters: you put oil on my head; my cup is overflowing. ⁶ Truly, blessing and mercy will be with me all the days of my life; and I will have a place in the house of the Lord all my days.

⁵ Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.

²¹ Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black, ²² A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.

¹⁷ For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.

³⁰ Keeping back his soul from the underworld, so that he may see the light of life.

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⁶ I will have no fear, though ten thousand have come round me, putting themselves against me.

⁸ Be my guide, O Lord, in the ways of your righteousness, because of those who are against me; make your way straight before my face.

⁵ Then were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the upright.

⁵ The Lord is my heritage and the wine of my cup; you are the supporter of my right.

¹¹ You will make clear to me the way of life; where you are joy is complete; in your right hand there are pleasures for ever and ever.

¹⁵ As for me, I will see your face in righteousness: when I am awake it will be joy enough for me to see your form.

⁷ The law of the Lord is good, giving new life to the soul: the witness of the Lord is certain, giving wisdom to the foolish.

⁴ He made request to you for life, and you gave it to him, long life for ever and ever.

²⁶ The poor will have a feast of good things: those who make search for the Lord will give him praise: your heart will have life for ever.

²⁹ All the fat ones of the earth will give him worship; all those who go down to the dust will make themselves low before him, even he who has not enough for the life of his soul.

¹ Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation; who is then a cause of fear to me? the Lord is the strength of my life; who is a danger to me? ² When evil-doers, even my haters, came on me to put an end to me, they were broken and put to shame. ³ Even if an army came against me with its tents, my heart would have no fear: if war was made on me, my faith would not be moved. ⁴ One prayer have I made to the Lord, and this is my heart's desire; that I may have a place in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, looking on his glory, and getting wisdom in his Temple.

⁴ One prayer have I made to the Lord, and this is my heart's desire; that I may have a place in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, looking on his glory, and getting wisdom in his Temple.

¹¹ By you my sorrow is turned into dancing; you have taken away my clothing of grief, and given me robes of joy; ¹² So that my glory may make songs of praise to you and not be quiet. O Lord my God, I will give you praise for ever.

³ For you are my Rock and my strong tower; go in front of me and be my guide, because of your name.

¹⁹ O how great is your grace, which you have put in store for your worshippers, and which you have made clear to those who had faith in you, before the sons of men! ²⁰ You will keep them safe in your house from the designs of man; in the secret of your tent will you keep them from angry tongues.

³ O give praise to the Lord with me; let us be witnesses together of his great name.

⁹ Keep yourselves in the fear of the Lord, all you his saints; for those who do so will have no need of anything. ¹⁰ The young lions are in need and have no food; but those who are looking to the Lord will have every good thing.

⁷ How good is your loving mercy, O God! the children of men take cover under the shade of your wings. ⁸ The delights of your house will be showered on them; you will give them drink from the river of your pleasures. ⁹ For with you is the fountain of life: in your light we will see light. ¹⁰ O let there be no end to your loving mercy to those who have knowledge of you, or of your righteousness to the upright in heart.

¹⁹ Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade.

⁷ You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil: and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head, lifting you high over all other kings.

¹ To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah; put to Alamoth. A Song. God is our harbour and our strength, a very present help in trouble. ² For this cause we will have no fear, even though the earth is changed, and though the mountains are moved in the heart of the sea; ³ Though its waters are sounding and troubled, and though the mountains are shaking with their violent motion. Selah. ⁴ There is a river whose streams make glad the resting-place of God, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.

¹¹ The Lord of armies is with us; the God of Jacob is our high tower. Selah.

¹⁰ Make a clean heart in me, O God; give me a right spirit again.

¹² Give me back the joy of your salvation; let a free spirit be my support.

²⁴ Your wisdom will be my guide, and later you will put me in a place of honour. ²⁵ Whom have I in heaven but you? and having you I have no desire for anything on earth. ²⁶ My flesh and my heart are wasting away: but God is the Rock of my heart and my eternal heritage.

¹⁹ They said bitter words against God, saying, Is God able to make ready a table in the waste land?

⁵² But he took his people out like sheep, guiding them in the waste land like a flock.

⁹ Give us help, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; take us out of danger and give us forgiveness for our sins, because of your name.

¹³ So we your people, and the sheep of your flock, will give you glory for ever: we will go on praising you through all generations.

¹¹ The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.

⁴ Come back to us, O God of our salvation, and be angry with us no longer. ⁵ Will you go on being angry with us for ever? will you keep your wrath against us through all the long generations? ⁶ Will you not give us life again, so that your people may be glad in you? ⁷ Let us see your mercy, O Lord, and give us your salvation.

¹³ Righteousness will go before him, making a way for his footsteps.

¹⁰ But my horn is lifted up like the horn of the ox: the best oil is flowing on my head.

¹⁷ But the mercy of the Lord is eternal for his worshippers, and their children's children will see his righteousness;

¹⁵ And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart.

² The Lord will send out the rod of your strength from Zion; be king over your haters.

¹³ I will take the cup of salvation, and give praise to the name of the Lord.

⁶ The Lord is on my side; I will have no fear: what is man able to do to me?

¹⁷⁶ I have gone out of the way like a wandering sheep; make search for your servant; for I keep your teachings ever in mind.

⁷ Even when trouble is round me, you will give me life; your hand will be stretched out against the wrath of my haters, and your right hand will be my salvation.

⁸ Let the story of your mercy come to me in the morning, for my hope is in you: give me knowledge of the way in which I am to go; for my soul is lifted up to you. ⁹ O Lord, take me out of the hands of my haters; my soul is waiting for you. ¹⁰ Give me teaching so that I may do your pleasure; for you are my God: let your good Spirit be my guide into the land of righteousness.

¹¹ I have given you teaching in the way of wisdom, guiding your steps in the straight way.

²⁰ I go in the road of righteousness, in the way of right judging:

⁶ Because this people will have nothing to do with the softly-flowing waters of Shiloah, and have fear of Rezin and Remaliah's son;

⁹ Have knowledge, O peoples, and be in fear; give ear, all you far-off parts of the earth: ¹⁰ Let your designs be formed, and they will come to nothing; give your orders, and they will not be effected: for God is with us.

⁶ And in this mountain will the Lord of armies make for all peoples a feast of good things, a feast of wines long stored, of good things sweet to the taste, of wines long kept and tested.

²³ And he will give rain for your seed, so that you may put it in the earth; and you will have bread from the produce of the earth, good and more than enough for your needs: in that day the cattle will get their food in wide grass-lands.

¹¹ He will give food to his flock like a keeper of sheep; with his arm he will get it together, and will take up the lambs on his breast, gently guiding those which are with young.

¹⁰ Have no fear, for I am with you; do not be looking about in trouble, for I am your God; I will give you strength, yes, I will be your helper; yes, my true right hand will be your support.

¹⁶ And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.

¹ But now, says the Lord your Maker, O Jacob, and your life-giver, O Israel: have no fear, for I have taken up your cause; naming you by your name, I have made you mine. ² When you go through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not go over you: when you go through the fire, you will not be burned; and the flame will have no power over you.

⁹ Saying to those who are in chains, Go free; to those who are in the dark, Come out into the light. They will get food by the way wherever they go, and have grass-lands on all the dry mountain-tops. ¹⁰ They will not be in need of food or drink, or be troubled by the heat or the sun: for he who has mercy on them will be their guide, taking them by the springs of water.

⁶ And they never said, Where is the Lord, who took us up out of the land of Egypt; who was our guide through the waste of sand, through an unplanted land full of deep holes, through a dry land of deep shade, which no one went through and where no man was living?

³ And I will get the rest of my flock together from all the countries where I have sent them, and will make them come back again to their resting-place; and they will have offspring and be increased. ⁴ And I will put over them keepers who will take care of them: never again will they be overcome with fear or be troubled, and there will not be the loss of one of them, says the Lord.

⁸ See, I will take them from the north country, and get them from the inmost parts of the earth, and with them the blind and the feeble-footed, the woman with child and her who is in birth-pains together: a very great army, they will come back here.

¹⁰ Give ear to the word of the Lord, O you nations, and give news of it in the sea-lands far away, and say, He who has sent Israel wandering will get him together and will keep him as a keeper does his flock.

³⁷ See, I will get them together from all the countries where I have sent them in my wrath and in the heat of my passion and in my bitter feeling; and I will let them come back into this place where they may take their rest safely. ³⁸ And they will be my people, and I will be their God: ³⁹ And I will give them one heart and one way, so that they may go on in the worship of me for ever, for their good and the good of their children after them: ⁴⁰ And I will make an eternal agreement with them, that I will never give them up, but ever do them good; and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they will not go away from me. ⁴¹ And truly, I will take pleasure in doing them good, and all my heart and soul will be given to planting them in this land in good faith. ⁴² For the Lord has said: As I have made all this great evil come on this people, so I will send on them all the good which I said about them.

¹⁴ And I was acting for the honour of my name, so that it might not be made unclean in the eyes of the nations, before whose eyes I had taken them out.

¹¹ For this is what the Lord has said: Truly, I, even I, will go searching and looking for my sheep. ¹² As the keeper goes looking for his flock when he is among his wandering sheep, so I will go looking for my sheep, and will get them safely out of all the places where they have been sent wandering in the day of clouds and black night. ¹³ And I will take them out from among the peoples, and get them together from the countries, and will take them into their land; and I will give them food on the mountains of Israel by the water-streams and wherever men are living in the country. ¹⁴ I will give them good grass-land for their food, and their safe place will be the mountains of the high place of Israel: there they will take their rest in a good place, and on fat grass-land they will take their food on the mountains of Israel.

²³ And I will put over them one keeper, and he will give them food, even my servant David; he will give them food and be their keeper. ²⁴ And I the Lord will be their God and my servant David their ruler; I the Lord have said it.

⁴ I will put right their errors; freely will my love be given to them, for my wrath is turned away from him. ⁵ I will be as the dew to Israel; he will put out flowers like a lily, and send out his roots like Lebanon. ⁶ His branches will be stretched out, he will be beautiful as the olive-tree and sweet-smelling as Lebanon. ⁷ They will come back and have rest in his shade; their life will be made new like the grain, and they will put out flowers like the vine; his name will be like the wine of Lebanon. ⁸ As for Ephraim, what has he to do with false gods any longer? I have given an answer and I will keep watch over him; I am like a branching fir-tree, from me comes your fruit. ⁹ He who is wise will see these things; he who has good sense will have knowledge of them. For the ways of the Lord are straight, and the upright will go in them, but sinners will be falling in them.

⁶ Drinking wine in basins, rubbing themselves with the best oils; but they have no grief for the destruction of Joseph.

² And you, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, the least among the families of Judah, out of you one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose going out has been purposed from time past, from the eternal days.

⁴ And he will take his place and give food to his flock in the strength of the Lord, in the glory of the name of the Lord his God; and their resting-place will be safe: for now he will be great to the ends of the earth.

⁸ Do not be glad because of my sorrow, O my hater: after my fall I will be lifted up; when I am seated in the dark, the Lord will be a light to me. ⁹ I will undergo the wrath of the Lord, because of my sin against him; till he takes up my cause and does what is right for me: when he makes me come out into the light, I will see his righteousness;

¹⁴ Keep your people safe with your rod, the flock of your heritage, living by themselves in the woods in the middle of Carmel: let them get their food in Bashan and Gilead as in the past.

¹⁸ Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy. ¹⁹ He will again have pity on us; he will put our sins under his feet: and you will send all our sins down into the heart of the sea.

²³ This is what the Lord of armies has said: In those days, ten men from all the languages of the nations will put out their hands and take a grip of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for it has come to our ears that God is with you.

¹⁰ And I took my rod Beautiful, cutting it in two, so that the Lord's agreement, which he had made with all the peoples, might be broken.

¹⁴ Then I took my other rod, the one named Bands, cutting it in two, so that the relation of brothers between Judah and Israel might be broken.

²³ See, the virgin will be with child, and will give birth to a son, and they will give him the name Immanuel, that is, God with us.

¹⁷ But when you go without food, put oil on your head and make your face clean;

³³ But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.

²⁰ Teaching them to keep all the rules which I have given you: and see, I am ever with you, even to the end of the world.

⁷⁹ To give light to those in dark places, and in the shade of death, so that our feet may be guided into the way of peace.

⁴⁶ You put no oil on my head: but she has put perfume on my feet.

³⁰ For the nations of the world go in search of all these things: but your Father has knowledge that you have need of them. ³¹ But let your chief care be for his kingdom, and these other things will be given to you in addition. ³² Have no fear, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

³¹ Simon, Simon, Satan has made a request to have you, so that he may put you to the test as grain is tested: ³² But I have made prayer for you, that your faith may not go from you: and when you are turned again, make your brothers strong.

⁵³ Then Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, If you do not take the flesh of the Son of man for food, and if you do not take his blood for drink, you have no life in you. ⁵⁴ He who takes my flesh for food and my blood for drink has eternal life: and I will take him up from the dead at the last day. ⁵⁵ My flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. ⁵⁶ He who takes my flesh for food and my blood for drink is in me and I in him.

⁹ I am the door: if any man goes in through me he will have salvation, and will go in and go out, and will get food. ¹⁰ The thief comes only to take the sheep and to put them to death: he comes for their destruction: I have come so that they may have life and have it in greater measure. ¹¹ I am the good keeper of sheep: the good keeper gives his life for the sheep.

¹⁴ I am the good keeper; I have knowledge of my sheep, and they have knowledge of me,

²⁷ My sheep give ear to my voice, and I have knowledge of them, and they come after me: ²⁸ And I give them eternal life; they will never come to destruction, and no one will ever take them out of my hand. ²⁹ That which my Father has given to me has more value than all; and no one is able to take anything out of the Father's hand. ³⁰ I and my Father are one.

²² So you have sorrow now: but I will see you again, and your hearts will be glad, and no one will take away your joy.

⁹ And the Lord said to Paul in the night, in a vision, Have no fear and go on preaching: ¹⁰ For I am with you, and no one will make an attack on you to do you damage: for I have a number of people in this town.

³² He who did not keep back his only Son, but gave him up for us all, will he not with him freely give us all things?

¹⁶ The cup of blessing which we take, does it not give us a part in the blood of Christ? and is not the broken bread a taking part in the body of Christ?

⁵⁵ O death, where is your power? O death, where are your pains? ⁵⁶ The pain of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law: ⁵⁷ But praise be to God who gives us strength to overcome through our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁰ Who gave us salvation from so great a death: on whom we have put our hope that he will still go on to give us salvation;

²¹ Now he who makes our faith strong together with you, in Christ, and has given us of his grace, is God;

¹ For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.

⁶ To the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely gave to us in the Loved One:

²⁰ Now to him who is able to do in full measure more than all our desires or thoughts, through the power which is working in us,

²³ I am in a hard position between the two, having a desire to go away and be with Christ, which is very much better:

¹⁹ And my God will give you all you have need of from the wealth of his glory in Christ Jesus.

¹⁸ The Lord will keep me safe from every evil work and will give me salvation in his kingdom in heaven: to whom be glory for ever and ever. So be it.

²² The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you.

⁵ Be free from the love of money and pleased with the things which you have; for he himself has said, I will be with you at all times. ⁶ So that we say with a good heart, The Lord is my helper; I will have no fear: what is man able to do to me?

²⁰ Now may the God of peace, who made that great keeper of his flock, even our Lord Jesus, come back from the dead through the blood of the eternal agreement,

²⁵ Because, like sheep, you had gone out of the way; but now you have come back to him who keeps watch over your souls.

⁴ And at the coming of the chief Keeper of the sheep, you will be given the eternal crown of glory.

²⁰ And you have the Spirit from the Holy One and you all have knowledge.

²⁷ As for you, the Spirit which he gave you is still in you, and you have no need of any teacher; but as his Spirit gives you teaching about all things, and is true and not false, so keep your hearts in him, through the teaching which he has given you.

¹⁹ To all those who are dear to me, I give sharp words and punishment: then with all your heart have sorrow for your evil ways.

¹⁷ For the Lamb who is on the high seat will be their keeper and their guide to fountains of living water: and God will make glad their eyes for ever.

⁶ And he said to me, It is done. I am the First and the Last, the start and the end. I will freely give of the fountain of the water of life to him who is in need.

¹ And I saw a river of water of life, clear as glass, coming out of the high seat of God and of the Lamb,

¹⁷ And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him who gives ear, say, Come. And let him who is in need come; and let everyone desiring it take of the water of life freely.