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In this first volume of a three-volume commentary on the book of Psalms, Old Testament scholar John Goldingay provides a lucid introduction to the Psalter and fresh commentary on Psalms 1–41. Writing with a scholar’s eye and a pastor’s heart, Goldingay considers the literary, historical, and grammatical dimensions of the text as well as its theological implications. The resulting commentary will...

Lady Babylon, one to be devastated— The good fortune of the person who requites you for the deed that you did to us. The good fortune of the person who grabs your babies and dashes them on the rocks. (Ps. 137:8–9) This psalm links not forward with the NT but back with the Prophets, for it asks not for a punishment that its sick imagination dreams up but simply for Yhwh to do what Yhwh has already promised to do (see Isa. 13:13–19).76 In the NT we might compare it with Paul’s declaration: “It is right
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