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In the inspired poems of the Psalms, we find the full range of human emotions laid bare before the heart of God. Pastor-theologian Richard D. Phillips provides thoughtful, devotional commentary on the psalms of Book 2 (Psalms 42–72), which is distinctive for its variety of authors. He shows that in the spiritual walk of faith, these psalmists take believers by the hand and guide us in our...

earlier times when they reveled in the congregation, like the ancient Israelite festivals in “the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise,” only makes their desire more palpable. So it was for this Korahite, who was forced to be absent from the house of the Lord. The homesickness that we feel when we are unable to join fellow believers for worship should call to mind the greater alienation from God that is caused by sin. The eighteenth-century preacher George Horne notes from Psalm 42 that
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