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The book of Psalms is a favorite of Christians, even though we frequently read it in portions and pieces, hopscotch through the familiar, and avoid the odd, the unpleasant, and the difficult. But though the individual psalms arose from an assortment of times, experiences, and settings, the book of Psalms is composed in a deliberate pattern, not as a random anthology. The meaning of the Psalms is...

So we do not know, and do not need to know, what our psalmist was doing in the far north of Israel. Was he simply travelling? Was he a hostage, a prisoner of war, an exile?386 Whatever the reason, he was a long way from home. That meant a long way from God’s home, too, the Jerusalem shrine where the ministry of the Sons of Korah was based. Our psalmist will have recognized the paradox. He well knows both that God is everywhere, and at the same time that God is specially to
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