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The Message of Psalms: Songs for the People of God is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

him, then so shall we. We can take verse 6 for our own, as the writer of Hebrews did, and ‘say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?” ’460 The most obvious feature of Psalm 119, after its extreme length, is its division into twenty-two equal stanzas, each headed by a letter of the Hebrew alphabet. It is in other words not only far and away the longest of the psalms, and the longest chapter in the Bible, but also the most elaborate of the Psalter’s
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