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Word Biblical Commentary, Volume 21: Psalms 101–150, Revised is unavailable, but you can change that!

Get a fresh understanding of the last 50 Psalms, as well as a deeper appreciation of their impact, in their original setting and in their history of interpretation throughout church history. Survey current research into these psalms, and review a fresh translation and textual notes.

certain number of motifs, which pervades even the vav strophe where the psalmist had complete control over his material, simply prefixing ו, “and,” to the first word, though, as Soll (Psalm 119, 30) has observed, to make his task harder the poet chose to make the second letter alef in each line after the first. But rational ordering is not completely absent; on closer inspection many strophes have their own distinctive emphases. As to genre, although Ps 119 is by no means a pure wisdom psalm, it
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