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Songs of a Suffering King: The Grand Christ Hymn of Psalms 1–8 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Our Lord has given Psalms, the songbook of the Bible, for the benefit of the church. But for many people, Psalms’ contents are mysterious because they no longer have a place of prominence in the church’s worship. Author J. V. Fesko hopes to awaken the church to the majesty, beauty, and splendor of Psalms through a devotional exploration of Psalms 1–8, a “grand Christ hymn,” in which David, as the...

words that David prayed were ultimately Christ’s. Hence, “this short observation about the New Testament sheds significant light on the entire Psalter. It refers the Psalter to Christ.”3 Second, I suspect that most Psalter readers assume that the book is randomly arranged, like a potpourri or grab bag of theological observations. But there is a specific organizational structure to the whole Psalter that is most readily observable in its fivefold division. In fact, according to ancient rabbinic tradition,
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