Psalm 23:5 {22:5}
Good News Translation
You prepare a banquet for me, where all my enemies can see me; you welcome me as an honored guest and fill my cup to the brim.

New Revised Standard Version
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.

Contemporary English Version
You treat me to a feast, while my enemies watch. You honor me as your guest, and you fill my cup until it overflows.

New American Bible
You set a table before me in front of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast prepared a table before me against them that afflict me. Thou hast anointed my head with oil; and my chalice which inebreateth me, how goodly is it!

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou hast prepared a table before me against them that afflict me. Thou hast anointed my head with oil; and my chalice which inebreateth me, how goodly is it!

preparest

Psalm 22:26,29 The poor shall eat and shall be filled: and they shall praise the Lord that seek him: their hearts shall live for ever and ever. . . .

Psalm 31:19,20 O how great is the multitude of thy sweetness, O Lord, which thou hast hidden for them that fear thee! Which thou hast wrought for them that hope in thee, in the sight of the sons of men. . . .

Psalm 104:15 And that wine may cheer the heart of man. That he may make the face cheerful with oil: and that bread may strengthen man's heart.

Job 36:16 Therefore he shall set thee at large out of the narrow mouth, and which hath no foundation under it: and the rest of thy table shall be full of fatness.

Isaiah 25:6 And the Lord of hosts shall make unto all people in this mountain, a feast of fat things, a feast of wine, of fat things full of marrow, of wine purified from the lees.

John 6:53-56 Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen, I say unto you: except you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you. . . .

John 10:9,10 I am the door. By me, if any man enter in, he shall be saved: and he shall go in and go out, and shall find pastures. . . .

John 16:22 So also you now indeed have sorrow: but I will see you again and your heart shall rejoice. And your joy no man shall take from you.

thou anointest [heb.

Psalm 45:7 Thou hast loved justice, and hated iniquity: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

Psalm 92:10 But my horn shall be exalted like that of the unicorn: and my old age in plentiful mercy.

Amos 6:6 That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best ointments: and they are not concerned for the affliction of Joseph.

Matthew 6:17 But thou, when thou fastest anoint thy head, and wash thy face;

2 Corinthians 1:21 Now he that confirmeth us with you in Christ and that hath anointed us, is God:

1 John 2:20,27 But you have the unction from the Holy One and know all things. . . .

my cup

Psalm 16:5 The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: it is thou that wilt restore my inheritance to me.

Psalm 116:13 I will take the chalice of salvation; and I will call upon the name of the Lord.

1 Corinthians 10:16 The chalice of benediction which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? And the bread which we break, is it not the partaking of the body of the Lord?

Ephesians 3:20 Now to him who is able to do all things more abundantly than we desire or understand, according to the power that worketh in us:

Context
The LORD is My Shepherd
4For though I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will fear no evils, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they have comforted me. 5Thou hast prepared a table before me against them that afflict me. Thou hast anointed my head with oil; and my chalice which inebreateth me, how goodly is it!6And thy mercy will follow me all the days of my life. And that I may dwell in the house of the Lord unto length of days.…
Cross References
Luke 7:46
My head with oil thou didst not anoint. But she with ointment hath anointed my feet.

Psalm 16:5
The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: it is thou that wilt restore my inheritance to me.

Psalm 31:19
O how great is the multitude of thy sweetness, O Lord, which thou hast hidden for them that fear thee! Which thou hast wrought for them that hope in thee, in the sight of the sons of men.

Psalm 73:10
Therefore will my people return here and full days shall be found in them.

Psalm 78:19
And they spoke ill of God: they said: Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

Psalm 92:10
But my horn shall be exalted like that of the unicorn: and my old age in plentiful mercy.

Psalm 104:15
And that wine may cheer the heart of man. That he may make the face cheerful with oil: and that bread may strengthen man's heart.

Psalm 141:5
The just man shall correct me in mercy, and shall reprove me: but let not the oil of the sinner fatten my head. For my prayer shall still be against the things with which they are well pleased:

Proverbs 27:9
Ointment and perfumes rejoice the heart: and the good counsels of a friend are sweet to the soul.

Ecclesiastes 9:8
At all times let thy garments be white, and let not oil depart from thy head.

Isaiah 61:3
To appoint to the mourners of Sion, and to give them a crown for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, a garment of praise for the spirit of grief: and they shall be called in it the mighty ones of justice, the planting of the Lord to glorify him.

Psalm 23:4
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