Psalm 47 Within the last 2 weeks we have seen violent protests from both the Left and the Right.  With unprecedented crackdowns on free speech as a result.  Yesterday, the country of Iran fired long range missiles which touched down a few miles from a commercial ship in the Indian Ocean further stoking the [...]

Psalm 46 If I were to ask you about Martin Luther most people would rightly associate Luther with the Scripture text of Romans 1:17— “The just shall live by faith”. But one often overlooked element of Luther’s life and testimony is the key role which the Psalms played in his salvation. Luther taught the [...]

Psalm 45 This Psalm focuses our heart and mind upon all the splendor of a Royal Wedding, evoking all the sights, sounds and emotions associated with the tremendous occasion whereby the king of Israel would be united in holy matrimony with his bride! We are not told exactly which king of Israel this great [...]

Psalm 44 “God never sleeps” wrote the Scottish commentator Murdoch Campbell in his notes on Psalm 44.  You may remember after the prophet Elijah mockingly hypothesized that the gods of the Canaanites failed to respond because they were asleep in 1 Kings 18. The Psalmist of Israel imagines that Yahweh is asleep in verse [...]

Psalms 42 & 43 What is the suggestion being made when God chooses to open up the second book of the Psalter with not 1 but 2 Psalms which speak about depression and depressive feelings and emotions? I believe there are 2 important reasons the Lord does this: These are common experiences for God’s [...]

Psalm 41 Book 1 contains Psalms 1–41, and this means that we have come to the last psalm of Book 1 with this chapter. The other books contain Psalms 42–72 (Book 2), Psalms 73–89 (Book 3), Psalms 90–106 (Book 4), and Psalms 107–150 (Book 5). Psalm 40 ends with the thought that the Psalmist [...]

Psalm 40 Psalm 40 probably follows after 38 and 39 for good reason.  In the 38th Psalm, David laments a serious illness with no end in sight.  And it was this terrible illness which caused him to ponder the brevity of life in 39. In Psalm 40, we have the Psalmist giving thanksgiving to [...]

Psalm 39 This Psalm invites us to think about life and its brevity.  We live in a culture which does everything it can to make us NOT think about the brevity of life.  The last thing our great enemies; the world, the flesh and the devil want us to do is think about how [...]

Psalm 36 Psalm 36 is connected to Psalm 1.  The main difference is whereas Psalm 1 contrasts the wicked with the righteous Psalm 36 contrasts the attributes of the wicked with the attributes of God Himself. In Psalm 36, we have 2 realities displayed for us.  On the one hand you have the wicked [...]

Psalm 35 There are certain portions of the Bible that cause problems for some people.  And perhaps no other portion of the book of Psalms is more hotly contested than the Imprecatory Psalms.   The word “Imprecation” literally means “curse”.  So, in these Imprecatory Psalms the Psalmist calls for curses and judgements against the enemies [...]