This is the first volume of a practical and readable introduction to the Psalms which effectively unfolds the text and meaning as songs for the people of God. The expositions represent Michael Wilcock's attempts over many years to unfold God's Word to real people confronting the raw questions of life in the church and in the world. He sees the Psalter as a collection, an anthology, a hymnal, a book of songs. It is full of pictures that show us a variety of places in a land of spiritual experience. In his view it is important for Christians today to appropriate the range of human emotion that is embodied in the Psalms. We also need their imaginative vitality. The book will be helpful in using the Psalms in church services, and includes an exposition of every Psalm, long or short, familiar or neglected.
The Bible Speaks Today series covers every book of the Old and New Testaments, as well as Bible themes that run through the whole of Scripture. These revised editions are updated with contemporary language and Bible translations to help you to follow and to teach the Bible in today's world.
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Michael Wilcock explores The Message of Psalms 1-72, part of the updated Bible Speaks Today Old Testament series of commentaries.
General preface ix
Author's preface xi
Begin here xiii
List of abbreviations xvii
List of technical terms xx
List of related hymns xxi
Book I (Psalms 1 - 41)
1. The preamble (Psalms 1 - 2) 1
2. The first David Collection (Psalms 3 - 41) 8
Book II (Psalms 42 - 72)
3. The first Korah Collection and the first Asaph psalm
(Psalms 42 - 50) 145
4. The second David Collection and the first Solomon psalm
(Psalms 51 - 72) 181
Michael Wilcock is a former Director of Pastoral Studies at Trinity College, Bristol and minister of St Nicholas Church, Durham. As well as The Message of 1 & 2 Chronicles he is the author of The Bible Speaks Today commentaries on Judges, Psalms, Luke and Revelation.
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