BAKER COMMENTARY on the OLD TESTAMENT

Psalms

Volume 3

Psalms 90–150

John Goldingay

Baker Academic

a division of Baker Publishing Group

Grand Rapids, Michigan

©2008 by John Goldingay

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Goldingay, John.

Psalms / John Goldingay.

p. cm.—(Baker commentary on the Old Testament wisdom and Psalms)

“The first of a three-volume commentary on the book of Psalms”—ECIP data view.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN 978-0-8010-2703-1 (cloth: v. 1)

ISBN 978-0-8010-2704-8 (cloth: v. 2)

ISBN 978-0-8010-3143-4 (cloth: v. 3)

1. Bible. O.T. Psalms—Commentaries. I. Title. II. Series.

BS1430.53.G65 2006

223′.2077—dc22

2006009724

Contents

Series Preface

Author’s Preface

Abbreviations

Psalm 90: Yhwh and Time

Psalm 91: Shadow of the Almighty

Psalm 92: Testimony, Praise, and Teaching

Psalm 93: Yhwh Began to Reign

Psalm 94: God of Redress

Psalm 95: Praise, Prostration, Obedience

Psalm 96: Why Yhwh Comes

Psalm 97: Yhwh Began to Reign: Earth Is to Rejoice

Psalm 98: God of Israel, God of the World

Psalm 99: Holy Name, Holy Place, Holy God

Psalm 100: Summons to All the Earth

Psalm 101: Leadership with Integrity

Psalm 102: My Time, Our Time, and Yhwh’s Time

Psalm 103: Restoration, Individual and Communal

Psalm 104: Yhwh in Relation to Creation Then and Now

Psalm 105: Yhwh Is Still the Same

Psalm 106: Recognizing Yhwh’s Judgment

Psalm 106:48: Coda to Book IV

Psalm 107: Yhwh Has Indeed Restored Israel

Psalm 108: Claiming God’s Promises

Psalm 109: How to Pray for Recompense

Psalm 110: King and Priest

Psalm 111: Worship and Wisdom

Psalm 112: Beatitudes

Psalm 113: Yhwh Sits on High, Looks Down Low

Psalm 114: Still the God of the Exodus

Psalm 115: God and Other Objects of Trust

Psalm 116: How to Give Your Testimony (II)

Psalm 117: Much in a Small Compass

Psalm 118: The Stone Spurned

Psalm 119: The Dynamics of the Moral Life

Psalm 120: War and Peace

Psalm 121: Yhwh as Helper, Maker, Guard

Psalm 122: For Jerusalem

Psalm 123: The Servant Looks to the Master

Psalm 124: Our Help Is Yhwh’s Name

Psalm 125: Well-Being on Israel

Psalm 126: Weeping and Laughter

Psalm 127: Yhwh Gives, Yhwh Fills

Psalm 128: Work, Home, Family

Psalm 129: The Promise of Empty Harvest

Psalm 130: From the Depths of Trouble and Waywardness

Psalm 131: How I Gave Up Trying to Fix Things, and So Should You

Psalm 132: The Reciprocity of Prayer

Psalm 133: How Wondrous Is Living as One

Psalm 134: The Reciprocity of Praise and Blessing

Psalm 135: How to Use Scripture in Praise

Psalm 136:...