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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...

person that YOUR ways may be known … (in each case emphasis mine). For the psalm is going beyond the Aaronic blessing, which was for that nation as it crossed the desert to the promised land, when the thought of harvest was far off. Now that they are enjoying all this they can concentrate on their calling to be God’s priests for the blessing of the world. It is significant that words usually uttered by the high priest alone are taken on the lips of the whole congregation. For Israel was a priesthood
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