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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...

the Feast of Tabernacles. That may be the setting here. In this case, the priests in verses 1–2 are calling upon the “servants of the LORD,” all the assembled people (cf. 113:1), to acknowledge their dependence upon the LORD: “lift up your hands” towards the sanctuary where the LORD dwells and “bless” him (cf. 63:4 for a similar use of “bless” and “lift up the hands” in a context of praise and thanksgiving). In verse 3 this call to worship is backed up by the pronouncement of a blessing upon the
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