Psalm

The Poor Widow's Offering, Frederick Goodall, before 1904
Commentary on Psalm 146

Psalm 146 lacks any evidence of context, enabling the reader to hear it in her own time [...]

spray-painted hearts
Commentary on Psalm 119:1-8

Psalm 119, the first eight verses of which comprise the appointed psalm for this Sunday, [...]

Raising of Lazarus by Peter Paul Morandell on the facade of the cemetery chapel in Rum, Tyrol (1956)
Commentary on Psalm 24

Psalm 24 is an entrance liturgy.1 It is very likely that the liturgy was designed to accompany [...]

Millstone in a garden
Commentary on Psalm 19:7-14

Psalm 19 celebrates God’s ordering activity through the use of two different literary elements. To [...]

a mighty fortress
Commentary on Psalm 46

Type “Psalm 46” in the Working Preacher search box and you’ll discover that there are 11 other [...]

Detail from
Commentary on Psalm 126

Psalm 126 is among the relatively small number of psalms for which historical context is both fairly [...]

Lucas van Leyden: Detail from Inner left wing of a diptych with Christ as the Man of Sorrows
Commentary on Psalm 91:9-16

It is not surprising that Psalm 91 is often read, frequently set to music, and [...]

threading a needle
Commentary on Psalm 90:12-17

If, on occasion, the Revised Common Lectionary may be said to do the interpreter no [...]

judge's gavel
Commentary on Psalm 8

Psalm 8 celebrates YHWH as creator of all and, thus, Lord of all. Since God made the [...]

Children embracing with smiles
Commentary on Psalm 54

It’s difficult for folks involved in ministry to come up with the right words for every prayer [...]