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Psalms 73–150: An Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

“The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.” “Thy word is a lamp to my feet.” “Search me, O God, and know my heart!” Such phrases leap to mind each time a Christian lifts his heart to God. For many, in fact, Psalms is the richest part of the Old Testament. Derek Kidner provides a fresh and penetrating guide to the Psalms. He analyzes each psalm in depth, comments on interpretive questions and...

the first two: God not only sees the invisible and penetrates the inaccessible, but is operative there, the author of every detail of my being. And the dimension of time is now added to those of space, from before my existence to whatever is implied in the phrase ‘when I awake’ (18). 13. Form (or ‘create’) and knit … together make better sense here than ‘possessed’ and ‘covered’ (AV, RV), and are well established alternative meanings of the Hebrew words in question. 14. Here, however, RSV follows
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