Commentary on Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19
God has seemingly turned God’s face away. So distant, so [...]
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Commentary on Psalm 95:1-7a
If you are considering this psalm selection for Christ the King/Reign of Christ Sunday, one [...]
Commentary on Psalm 90:1-8 [9-11] 12
In ancient Israel, crisis brought a response of gathering at [...]
Commentary on Psalm 34:1-10, 22
Psalm 34 belongs to the so-called wisdom psalms in the [...]
Commentary on Psalm 70
Psalm 70 is a prayer from an individual, almost a kind of sigh from this person of [...]
Commentary on Psalm 43
Hermann Gunkel, famous for his work on the psalms,1 once noted, “The individual complaint songs form the basic [...]
Commentary on Psalm 46
Psalm 46 is a community hymn that is more specifically classified as a “Song of Zion.”1 While [...]
Commentary on Psalm 1
This deceptively simple psalm serves as the introduction to the Psalter and sets before us, the readers, [...]
Commentary on Psalm 96:1-9 [10-13]
“It’s like those miserable psalms. They’re so depressing.” At least, [...]
Commentary on Psalm 23
Many of us can only hear the first line of the Psalm in the King James Version [...]
