Psalm 23 ("The Lord is My Shepherd") Themes
Humility
You know the saying, "Pride goes before the fall"? Well, that's a religious saying, and it's very relevant to Psalm 23. Pride, and specifically the kind of pride that makes lesser beings want to pu...
Religion
How you read Psalm 23 depends in part on what religious perspective you approach it with. Christians are likely to emphasize the connections between the Lord in the psalm and Christ of the Gospels....
Happiness
We think it's useful to compare Psalm 23 to the story of Job, also from early Hebrew scriptures (or the Old Testament). Job was a good guy who was put through horrendous hardships, but continued to...
Good vs. Evil
You might be wondering, "Evil? What evil? This poem is all about the good." True enough, but as the popular theological argument goes, good cannot exist without evil as its opposite. We can't conce...
Morality
The speaker of Psalm 23 walks through the valley of the shadow of death with the guidance of the Lord as his shepherd. The valley likely represents his fear of death. Also, you could interpret walk...