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The Psalms as Christian Praise: A Historical Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Following in the style of their companion volumes, The Psalms as Christian Worship and The Psalms as Christian Lament, Bruce Waltke and James Houston now explore the depths of Christian praise. Each volume uniquely blends verse-by-verse commentary with a history of Psalms interpretation in the church from the time of the apostles to the present. Since praise is the essence of the book of Psalms,...

3 The antecedent of emphatic he has no plausible candidate other than I AM (“my God,” v. 2). Will deliver means “to snatch away, to remove, to liberate out of any kind of being held fast.”61 The antecedent of you is “I” of verse 2 (see “Form” above). The fowler (see Pss. 124:7; 141:9; 2 Tim. 2:26) may be death itself62 and/or the wicked (v. 8) and the cobra and snake (v. 13). A trap or snare conceals its deadly danger in order to take its victim suddenly and by surprise to hold him fast until
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