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Invitation to the Psalms: A Reader’s Guide for Discovery and Engagement is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Book of Psalms is perhaps the most cherished book in the Old Testament. In this lively volume, two experienced teachers invite students to read and explore the Psalter and roam widely among its poems. The book introduces the dynamics of the biblical text, helping students become careful and attentive readers. It covers how to read Hebrew poetry, the Psalter’s basic genres, the idea of “the...

me; the torrents of perdition assailed me” (18:4), “my body wasted away, … my strength was dried up” (32:3–4), my feet were stuck in “a miry bog” (40:2), “we went through fire and through water” (66:12), and so on. Essential to the description of the crisis is the psalmist’s report of asking God for help. In Psalm 30, the singer says both “I cried to you for help” (v. 2) and reports that “To you, O LORD, I cried, and to the LORD I made supplication” (v. 8). Psalm 107 is a more generic and longer
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