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Psalms 1–89: The Lord Saves is unavailable, but you can change that!

A Psalm is basically a poem set to music and sung. This sets the book of Psalms apart from other Scripture. You will find other Psalms and songs scattered throughout scripture—some are also used for worship—but they tend to be part of a narrative. Because people think of the Psalms purely as a songbook, they have tended to overlook them as a place to look for teaching, and many have even...

time. But from birth to death sheep are totally dependent on the shepherd, who does everything for them, as the remaining verses show. This is what God is to each believer, for the words are not ‘our’ shepherd but my shepherd, a phrase apparently used by only one other—Jacob (Gen. 48:15). To David God was the one who ‘performs all things for me’ (Ps. 57:2 KJV).Only this kind of relationship to God can give contentment for the present and confidence for the future, enabling one to say I shall not
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