Commentary on Psalm 138
Psalm 138 is almost always categorized as a song of thanksgiving.1 God has answered the psalmist’s prayer [...]
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Commentary on Psalm 1
The poets and compilers of the Book of Psalms were clearly in touch with a perennial human [...]
Commentary on Psalm 37:1-11, 39-40
Neither prayer nor praise, Psalm 37 is an alphabetic acrostic, [...]
Commentary on Psalm 99
All the other readings for the day mention Moses; and it may be that Psalm 99 was [...]
Commentary on Psalm 51:1-17
Almost no historically trained biblical scholars conclude that David wrote any of the psalms. Rather, [...]
Commentary on Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16
Israeli scholar Yair Hoffman once characterized Psalm 91 as an [...]
Commentary on Psalm 27
“The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?” the psalmist declares. “The Lord [...]
Commentary on Psalm 63:1-8
Following the superscription, it is not hard to imagine David giving voice to this prayer [...]
Commentary on Psalm 32
We don’t like to talk about sin. Especially if it means talking about our own sin. We [...]
Commentary on Psalm 126
Psalm 126 is the seventh psalm in the collection of psalms in Book Five of the Psalter [...]
