Psalms 23:1

This is an awesome statement. Perhaps David said it while sitting down with his own lambs who were happy and content to be at his side. He looked at the peace they enjoyed, applied it to the feelings he had about the Lord, and said, “I shall not want.” The word for “want” in Hebrew means “to lack, to be without, to have a need.”

In Psalms 23:1, this word “want” is in the imperfect tense which means “continual action. David was saying, “I shall continually not be in want, and I shall continually not lack anything.”