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The Vitality of Worship: A Commentary on the Book of Psalms is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Psalms have been central to Jewish and Christian tradition and spirituality across the centuries. In them people of all times and places have found echoes of their own experiences, whether of praise or perplexity, certainty or doubt, quiet assurance or agonized questioning. This commentary on the book of Psalms by Robert Davidson seeks to show how a knowledge of the place the Psalms...

psalm. What is not in doubt is that, regardless of its original liturgical context, the psalm speaks to the faith and imagination of worshippers in language which calls forth a glad response of praise. The opening recalls the coronation of a king. According to 2 Kgs. 11:12, after the king was crowned in the temple, the people “proclaimed him king … they clapped their hands and shouted, ‘Long live the king!’ ” After this ceremony, the king was escorted to the palace and “took his seat on the throne
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