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Psalms 1–72: A Commentary in the Wesleyan Tradition is unavailable, but you can change that!

Perhaps no other book of the Old Testament is more beloved, more widely used, and more often interpreted than Psalms. Psalms 1–72 is the first of two volumes on this treasured collection of hymns, praises, and prayers. With scholarly precision, David Thompson brings to the forefront the meaning of each psalm, describing its background and original function in the life of God’s people. He then...

The psalmist first describes this person negatively in three parallel denials (v 1b, c, and d) and then positively in a contrasting bicolon in v 2. The denials separate this profoundly glad person from three overlapping sectors of the population: wicked persons (v 1b), sinners (v 1c), and mockers (v 1d). Wicked designates persons generally by their character, “evil” as opposed to “godly.” More specifically sinners names persons by their behaviors. They sin, breaking God’s covenant with Israel (v
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