He restoreth my soul
Either when backslidden, and brings it back again when led or
driven away, and heals its backslidings; or rather, when
fainting, swooning, and ready to die away, he fetches it back
again, relieves, refreshes, and comforts with the discoveries of
his love, with the promises of his word, and with the
consolations of his Spirit, and such like reviving cordials,
(See Gill on Psalms
19:7);
he leadeth, he in the paths of righteousness;
in the plain paths of truth and holiness, in which men, though
fools, shall not err; in right ones, though they sometimes seem
rough and rugged to Christ's sheep, yet are not crooked; there is
no turning to the right hand or the left; they lead straight on
to the city of habitation; and they are righteous ones, as paths
of duty are, and all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord
be; moreover, Christ leads his by faith, to walk on in him and in
his righteousness, looking through it, and on account of it, for
eternal life; see ( Proverbs
8:20 ) ; and all this he does
for his name's sake;
for his own glory and the praise of his grace, and not for any
merits or deserts in men.