Category Archives: Psalms

Book Write-Up: Discovering Delight, by Glenda Mathes

Posted on December 15, 2014 by jamesbradfordpate

Glenda Mathes.  Discovering Delight: 31 Meditations on Loving God’s Law.  Grand Rapids: Reformation Heritage Books, 2014. In Discovering Delight, Glenda Mathes offers spiritual insights, using as her starting point verses from the Book of Psalms, particularly Psalm 119.  Occasionally, Mathes … Continue reading →

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Book Write-Up: Songs of a Suffering King

Posted on October 6, 2014 by jamesbradfordpate

J.V. Fesko.  Songs of a Suffering King: The Grand Christ Hymn of Psalms 1-8.  Grand Rapids: Reformation Heritage Books, 2014. J.V. Fesko is a minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, and he is the academic dean at Westminster Seminary California, … Continue reading →

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Book Write-Up: The Psalms

Posted on April 14, 2014 by jamesbradfordpate

Andrew J. Schmutzer and David M. Howard, Jr., ed.  The Psalms: Language for All Seasons of the Soul.  Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2013. I would like to thank Moody Publishers for sending me a review copy of this book.  See here … Continue reading →

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Psalm 150

Posted on March 8, 2014 by jamesbradfordpate

Well, this is my last post about the Book of Psalms for my weekly quiet time!  My first post of this series was published (on my blog, of course) on December 4, 2010.  That means that I have been doing … Continue reading →

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Psalm 149

Posted on March 1, 2014 by jamesbradfordpate

In this blog post about Psalm 149, I will post the entire Psalm in the King James Version (which is in the public domain), then I will comment on select verses. 1 Praise ye the LORD. Sing unto the LORD … Continue reading →

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Psalm 148

Posted on February 22, 2014 by jamesbradfordpate

In Psalm 148, the Psalmist exhorts the angels and various sorts of creatures and phenomena of nature to praise the LORD.  Leslie Allen states that nature is summoned to praise the LORD because “God’s people need helpers, as it were, … Continue reading →

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Psalm 147

Posted on February 15, 2014 by jamesbradfordpate

I have three items for my blog post today about Psalm 147. 1.  I liked John MacArthur’s comment in his MacArthur Study Bible: “This seems to be a post-Exilic psalm (cf. 147:2, 3) which might have been used to celebrate … Continue reading →

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Psalm 146

Posted on February 8, 2014 by jamesbradfordpate

Psalm 146:3-4 exhorts people not to put their trust in princes and men, and it then goes on to say that men die and their thoughts perish with them.  Later, in vv 7-9, we read that God judges for the … Continue reading →

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Psalm 145

Posted on February 1, 2014 by jamesbradfordpate

Psalm 145 is an acrostic Psalm, which means that it is arranged alphabetically, according to the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. The Masoretic Text for Psalm 145 does not have a verse that begins with the Hebrew letter nun, however.  … Continue reading →

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Psalm 144

Posted on January 25, 2014 by jamesbradfordpate

In Psalm 144, there are two parts.  Vv 1-11 concern deliverance from battle, and v 10 affirms that God “giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword” (KJV).  Vv 12-15 are about prosperity. There has … Continue reading →

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