Psalm 23 - Use in Media

Use in Media

  • In the 1951 film David and Bathsheba.
  • At the end of the 1973 film The Wicker Man, Howie shouts out Psalm 23, as he is being engulfed in flames.
  • In the 1980 David Lynch film The Elephant Man, Merrick recites Psalm 23, revealing his intelligence.
  • In the 1983 film "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence", the prisoners sing Psalm 23 as Jack Celliers (played by David Bowie) is buried in sand.
  • Craig Bartlett's 1988 clay animation short Arnold Escapes from Church shows how a young boy's imagination might interpret the words of Psalm 23. The congregation's reading mixed text from at least two translations, probably the KJV and the NIV.
  • In the graphic adventure game Gold Rush!, originally released by Sierra Entertainment in 1988, the main character Jerrod Wilson is given a clue about his brother's whereabouts in the bible verse Pslam 23.
  • It set to music as the theme tune of The Vicar of Dibley (1994).
  • In the 1997 film Titanic it is recited while the ship is sinking.
  • In the 1999 film Deep Blue Sea, the character Preacher (played by LL Cool J) recites a slightly modified version of this Psalm while attempting a rather risky plan.
  • In the 2002 film We Were Soldiers, "The Valley of the Shadow of Death" is referenced multiple times.
  • In the 2004 film Van Helsing, the creature of Dr. Frankenstein recites parts of the psalm when brought to the vampires' Masquerade Ball.
  • In the 2005 film Jarhead, Jamie Foxx's character recites the verse, but with his twist.
  • In the 2005 survival horror videogame Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, the captain of the USS Urania commits suicide after reading the psalm.
  • In episode 2.10 "The 23rd psalm" (2005-'06) of the ABC series Lost, Mr. Eko recites the psalm when the plane with the drugs and his brother is burning.
  • In episode 2.12 "Fire + Water" (2005-'06) of the ABC series Lost, Mr. Eko recites the King James version of the psalm while baptizing Claire and her son Aaron.
  • The song "The House of God, Forever" from Jon Foreman's 2008 EP, Summer is an adapted, version of Psalm 23, put to music.
  • In the 2009 film Terminator: Salvation, verse 4 is read by a preacher to Marcus Wright, before the latter is executed via lethal injection.
  • In the 2010 film The Book of Eli, Denzel Washington's character recites the Psalm.
  • In the 2010 film True Grit, Mattie, the narrator, recites part of the psalm.
  • In episode 7 "Revelations" of the 2011 series "Hell on Wheels" Cullen Bohannon and Elam Ferguson recite the psalm as a prayer over the dead and as they ride off into the sunset.
  • In the 2011 film War Horse, a British soldier recites the beginning of the Psalm whilst crossing no-man's land.
  • The psalm is used as the titles for the Psalm 23 Mysteries by Debbie Viguié

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