Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

He lets me lie down in green pastures;
He leads me beside quiet waters.

New American Standard Bible

He makes me lie down in green pastures;
He leads me beside quiet waters.

King James Version

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

International Standard Version

He causes me to lie down in pastures of green grass; he guides me beside quiet waters.

A Conservative Version

He makes me to lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.

American Standard Version

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; He leadeth me beside still waters.

Amplified


He lets me lie down in green pastures;
He leads me beside the still and quiet waters.

Darby Translation

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me beside still waters.

Julia Smith Translation

He will cause me to lie down in pastures of tender grass: he will lead me to the water of rest

King James 2000

He makes me to lie down in green pastures: he leads me beside the still waters.

Lexham Expanded Bible

In grassy pastures he makes me lie down; by quiet waters he leads me.

Modern King James verseion

He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

He feedeth me in a green pasture, and leadeth me forth beside the waters of comfort.

NET Bible

He takes me to lush pastures, he leads me to refreshing water.

New Heart English Bible

He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.

Webster

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

World English Bible

He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.

Youngs Literal Translation

In pastures of tender grass He causeth me to lie down, By quiet waters He doth lead me.

Devotionals

Devotionals about Psalm 23:2

References

Easton

Fausets

Smith

Images Psalm 23:2

Context Readings

The Good Shepherd

1 A Davidic psalm.The Lord is my shepherd;
there is nothing I lack.
2 He lets me lie down in green pastures;
He leads me beside quiet waters.
3 He renews my life;
He leads me along the right paths
for His name’s sake.


Cross References

Psalm 46:4

There is a river—
its streams delight the city of God,
the holy dwelling place of the Most High.

Revelation 7:17

For the Lamb who is at the center of the throne
will shepherd them;
He will guide them to springs of living waters,
and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.

Job 34:29

But when God is silent, who can declare Him guilty?
When He hides His face, who can see Him?
Yet He watches over both individuals and nations,

Isaiah 30:23

Then He will send rain for your seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food, the produce of the ground, will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures.

Isaiah 49:9-10

saying to the prisoners: Come out,
and to those who are in darkness: Show yourselves.
They will feed along the pathways,
and their pastures will be on all the barren heights.

Ezekiel 34:13-14

I will bring them out from the peoples, gather them from the countries, and bring them into their own land. I will shepherd them on the mountains of Israel, in the ravines, and in all the inhabited places of the land.

Revelation 21:6

And He said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give water as a gift to the thirsty from the spring of life.

Revelation 22:1

Then he showed me the river of living water, sparkling like crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb

Revelation 22:17

Both the Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Anyone who hears should say, “Come!” And the one who is thirsty should come. Whoever desires should take the living water as a gift.

Isaiah 8:6

Because these people rejected
the slowly flowing waters of Shiloah
and rejoiced with Rezin
and the son of Remaliah,

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