Psalm 118 completes the six Hallel Psalms (113-118) which were prayed at festival celebrations in Israel. The high note in this psalm celebrates God preserving the persecuted and rejected man…
The Lord blessed Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiply, to take dominion over the world and fill it with grateful image bearers. After sin entered, God promised the…
God doesn’t change and therefore what He requires doesn’t change. In the old covenant He wants mercy and not sacrifice (Hos. 6:6), and Jesus says, “But go and learn what…
The psalmist is overcome and tempted to despair by the wicked in Psalms 42-43. He finds redemption in Psalm 44 and deliverance by the King in 45. God offers refuge…
The nations and princes of the earth gathered to exalt the Lord at the end of Psalm 47. They continue that celebration in Psalm 48 but now within Zion, the…
The result of the gospel, of God’s sovereign love taking effect in this world, is joy among all the nations. Messianic psalms either explicitly describe the rule of the messiah…
The individual suffering in Psalms 42 and 43 becomes a corporate reality in Psalm 44. The desolation here will be addressed by the coming of the King in Psalm 45.…
Psalm 43 continues pleas for deliverance David began in Psalm 42. It has no superscription and includes the same refrain as Psalm 42: "Why are you cast down, O my…
Psalm 41 concludes Book 1 of the Psalter, showing that blessed man of Psalm 1 will not be overthrown by his enemies described in Psalm 2, not even by his…
God is a father—the Father—who both disciplines and delights, but far more He delights in His children. In this psalm David recounts his experience of falling into pride, confessing it…