Psalm 23 is one of the most famous psalms in the world. Many people, of all walks of life, at one time or another, have heard this psalm read and can usually recite at least one line of the psalm. As Walter Brueggemann states, “The grip it has on biblical spirituality is deep and genuine.”
Most people associate the psalm with one common event: a funeral. But there is so much more to this psalm than sadness and death. It is widely considered that David wrote the majority of the psalms, including Psalm 23, as a reflection on events that happened or were happening in his life at the time. Because he grew up a shepherd, many of David’s writings depicted the metaphor of seeing God as a shepherd.
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