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In this insightful, informative, and easy-to-read volume, James Limburg takes us into the world of the Psalms and brings their world to us. Limburg studies each Psalm and shows how the Psalms confront the issues of our contemporary culture, transcending time, and transforming our faith and experience.

31:1–24 The last words that Jesus spoke before dying, according to Luke’s account, were from this psalm: Then Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.” Having said this, he breathed his last. (Luke 23:46; see Ps. 31:5) Stephen also spoke dying words from this psalm: “While they were stoning Stephen, he prayed, ‘Lord Jesus, receive my spirit’ ” (Acts 7:59; see Ps. 31:5). The words of Psalm 31:5 served as a last prayer for Jesus and for Stephen. In the context
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