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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 […] |
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