“One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my ...

Unlike the Psalms, they give no reason for our praise, but rather seek to work up their singers into a sort of corporate stupor. (Taylor makes a similar point in passing—he grew up in a “Bible church” ...

Open and Unafraid: The Psalms as a Guide to Life W. David O. Taylor. Thomas Nelson, $24.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-40-021047-3 ...

Psalm 139 is the paradigmatic psalm of the honest person. There is nothing the psalmist hides from God. “You have looked deep into my heart, Lord, and you know all about me” (v. 1, CEV).

Logos only had two verses from Psalms in its top 100, Psalm 46:10 (“Be still, and know that I am God”) and Psalm 119:105 (“Your word is a lamp for my feet, and a light on my path”).

Interesting forays in the commentary include reading the Psalms “as a midrashic-intertextual window” to understanding the narratives of the Bible. Psalms often references biblical narratives ...