"Bitter Water Turned Sweet"

In Psalm 10, the sense that God is absent comes from a heightened awareness wickedness in the world, and leads the psalmist to a desperate prayer of faith for deliverance and ultimate justice. When this world seems full of injustice and evil, the only hope we have is that God is a wise and fatherly king who will call wickedness to account and will give aid to those who find themselves in a position of dire helplessness.

Psalm 9 teaches us to praise God in remembrance of his character and deeds - specifically for the just punishment of his enemies and his remembrance of the oppressed. Instead of forgetting our humble human position, we praise God for his mercy toward us and long for the day when he will bring full and final judgment to those who forget Him.

James Montgomery Boice: It would be difficult to say anything negative about any one of the psalms, since each is a part of sacred Scripture and is given to us by God for our benefit. Every psalm in the Psalter has undoubtedly been of great spiritual benefit to many millions of persons. Yet we cannot…

Psalm 7 presents a scenario where David has been falsely accused by a certain man from the tribe of Benjamin named Cush. Have you ever been falsely accused? We tend to feel a mix of outrage and helplessness when we are. This Sunday we'll see how David responded to false accusation, and what we can learn from him. We'll also consider the most grievous of false accusations to ever take place, and how our Savior responded when false witnesses were brought against him.

The wailing cry of anguish is the tone of Psalm 6. The emotional expression in it reaches a fever pitch. And yet here is the remarkable thing that we’re going to look at closely this Sunday about this psalm: the motivating factor for David’s deliverance from the state of his troubled soul is not primarily comfort and reprieve. What David’s troubled soul longed for the most was the glory of God.