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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...

136, that ‘his love endures for ever’; continue with 137, which dates the collection; and move on into a set of David psalms, taken perhaps from a much older collection, which in a different sense do not date at all. For here once more, in their opening number 138, and indeed at its climax, is the same old truth which by its very nature is always new: ‘His love endures for ever.’ Words like omniscience and omnipresence can be a useful shorthand for stating facts about God. With regard to
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