What does verse 23 say?

Psalm 23 is a true reflection of the poet's spiritual life and a beautiful revelation of his inner life. Not talking about an artistic conception outside. Because David is a man who pays attention to prayer and praise, he gets a realistic picture through constant prayer. This is also his complete trust in God. If a person does not pray, it is impossible to realize that the Lord is his shepherd.

Even if I am immersed in the grace of the Lord every day, I don't know how to be grateful and grateful. Only David talked about the length, width, height and depth of God's grace. Only those who rely entirely on God can have such an inner life expression.

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How did the author write it?

Strictly speaking, the psalms were written by David, Moses, Asa and other unknown people. They were moved by the Holy Spirit and inspired by God. The final form of this collection of poems may have been decided by Ezra, Nehemiah or their later scribes. About the editorial work of Ezra. The first thing that tells us the origin of these poems is the inscriptions in the first two thirds.

In the original Hebrew text, these inscriptions were part of the text. Although these inscriptions existed before lxx, many scholars still believe that they were added after the collection of Psalms, thus doubting their validity and reliability. The reasons of these scholars are:

1, these inscriptions are of unknown origin;

2. The content is sometimes vague;

3. The expression or implication of the inscription seems to be difficult to coordinate with the content and style of some poems.

Reliability of inscriptions

However, more conservative poets believe in the reliability of these inscriptions. The reason is:

1, the origin of these inscriptions can be traced back to the beginning of the second century BC, because they exist in lxx (in fact, their origin is much earlier than lxx, because lxx translators don't know many of them);

2. As a part of Hebrew texts, they have been handed down to this day;

3. Ancient Hebrew poems are all accompanied by inscriptions;

4. Inscriptions provide useful background knowledge for fully understanding the meaning and information of poetry. This note supports this view.

The names of eight people appeared in the inscription, namely, the author, contributor, editor, musician and other related editors, authors and singers of the Psalm. Their names are David, Asa, Korah, Moses, Heman, Ethan, Solomon and Jeduthun.

The most important of these people is David. Although some modern scholars deny that David is the main author and contributor of poetry, there are still many reasons to confirm the traditional view. David himself is a poet and musician (1 Sam16:15-23; 23:1; Mo 6: 5).

He has rich feelings and a broad mind. 1: 19-27; Sam 3: 33, 34), full of confidence and passion, so he served the Lord enthusiastically. Under his wise and kind leadership, music flourished in Israel. After the enemy's fortress Jebus was captured and the ark was transported to Mount Zion, the importance of public worship increased, thus promoting the creation of hymns and music used in scripture.

David's familiarity with nature, knowledge of law, lessons learned from adversity, sadness and temptation, his years of being close to God, and his colorful life as king of Israel all enabled him to sing the sweetest and saddest poems when he longed for God.

In addition, the poem mentions or quotes David's life everywhere, showing David's personality and skills. Many poems are related to the name of David, and some of them are quoted in 2 Sam and Chronicles 16: 1-36. All this strongly proves David's authorship.

The New Testament is in Matthew 22: 43-45; It can be12: 36,37; Luke 20: 42-44; Acts 2: 25; Acts 4: 25; Sea fish of Sparidae 4: 6-8; Luo11:9-10; The name of David is mentioned in Hebrews 4: 7, which proves the correctness of the above proposition. Allen's works also provide sufficient testimony (see Ancestors and Prophets, pp. 642-754; On education (164, 165).

There are 73 poems inscribed "Poems of David". There are 37 articles in the first volume, 8 articles in the second volume/kloc-0, 3 articles/kloc-0, 2 articles in the fourth volume and 5 articles/kloc-0. These 73 poems are generally called David's poems. However, the poem of David alone is not enough to prove that David is the author. According to the original Hebrew text, this can refer to the poems written by David or the poems collected by David.

But combined with other evidence, at least it can be proved that many of them were written by David. Regarding the use of the preposition "le" with proper nouns in the original text, Barnes said: "Although this statement cannot show or even prove that all these poems were written by David, it can show that the most outstanding author is the greatest king David of Israel."

There are 12 poems entitled "The Poems of Asa" (Ps. 50: 73-83). The Poems of Asa, like the Poems of David, cannot be proved to be written by Asa. Some of them are obviously written by David (see the preface of poems 73, 77 and 80). Asa was a Levite and one of the leaders of David's choir.

Like David, Asa was also a prophet and musician (see the previous generation 1. 6: 39; 29: 30; 12: 46). In the list of prisoners who returned to Jerusalem, only the descendants of Asa were mentioned (La 2: 4 1).

1 1 is inscribed with "Poems of Korah Descendants" (poems 42, 44-49, 84, 85, 87, 88). Korah was punished for opposing Moses' authority, but his descendants were not implicated. They are the leaders of the temple worship (see the previous generation 1. 6: 22; 9: 19).

There is a "poem of Korah's descendants" which is also marked as "the sermon of Heman the Ezra". Heman is the son of Joel, the grandson of Samuel, a Kohath from the tribe of Levi, and one of the leaders of the temple music. 6: 33; 15: 17; 16: 4 1,42).

There are three poems engraved with the name of Yedutton (poems 39, 62 and 77). He is the head of the Temple Choir. But there are other people's names in the inscription. These three poems may not have been written by Yeduton, but they were composed and written by him.

There is a poem labeled "The sermon of Ezra and Ethan" (see 1 Kings 4: 31; Poetry 89).

There are two poems labeled "Poems of Solomon" (Ps. 72, 127).

There is a poem marked "The Prayer of Moses" (Psalm 90).

One third of the poems have no inscriptions, and I don't know why I wrote them. It is speculated that these poems may have been written by other famous people in the Old Testament, such as Ezra, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Haggai.