Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries

Volume 16

General Editor: Donald J. Wiseman

Psalms 73–150

An Introduction and Commentary

Derek Kidner

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First published 1975

Reprinted in this format 2008

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

UK ISBN: 978-1-84474-293-6

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kidner, Derek.

Psalms 73–150: an introduction and commentary / Derek Kidner.

p. cm.—(Tyndale Old Testament commentaries; v. 16)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-8308-4216-2 (pbk.: alk. paper)

1. Bible. O.T. Psalms 73-150—Commentaries. I. Title.

BS1430.53.K536 2008

223/.207—dc22

2008046909

US ISBN: 978-0-8308-4216-2

CONTENTS

Chief abbreviations

Commentary on Books III–V

Book III Psalms 73–89

Book IV Psalms 90–106

Book V Psalms 107–150

Note on the numbering of the pages in this volume

Since this volume completes the commentary on the Psalms, its pages are numbered from the point at which the volume on Psalms 1–72 ended. The fairly frequent references to the Introduction, and other allusions to the earlier part of the commentary, are therefore identified simply by page numbers between 1 and 277. This avoids, incidentally, the possible confusion between the two volumes of the commentary and the five books into which the Psalter is traditionally divided.