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Psalms 71

Psalm 71

From youth to old age, the psalmist trusts the Lord as rock, fortress, hope, and rescuer. Even when God permits severe trouble, he remains confident t...

Psalms 70

Psalm 70

Psalms 70

Cry out for Salvation

Psalm 70 is David's urgent prayer for God to deliver him from enemies. Bryan and his son explain that poor and needy people can cry to God for help an...

Psalms 69

Psalm 69

David is overwhelmed by reproach and enemies who hate him without cause, yet he turns to the Lord for mercy and redemption. The psalm also points to C...

Psalms 68

Psalm 68

The almighty God scatters his enemies, cares for the poor, fatherless, widows, and solitary, gives strength to his people, and reigns with innumerable...

Psalms 67

Psalm 67

Psalm 67 asks God to show mercy, bless his people, and shine his face upon them so that his way and salvation become known throughout the earth. The n...

Psalms 66

Psalm 66

Psalm 66 calls the whole earth to glorious praise of God. It remembers how he delivered Israel, tells how he tested and preserved his people, and give...

Psalms 65

Psalm 65

Psalm 65 praises the God who hears prayer, provides atonement for transgression, saves his people, establishes mountains, stills seas, waters the eart...

Psalms 64

Psalm 64

Psalm 64 is David's prayer for protection from wicked people whose secret plots and bitter words are sharpened like weapons. Bryan teaches his son tha...

Psalms 63

Psalm 63

Psalm 63 portrays David thirsting and longing for God in the wilderness, praising God's covenant love, finding satisfaction in him, and remembering hi...

Psalms 62

Psalm 62

Psalm 62 calls the soul to wait silently for God alone as salvation, rock, defense, glory, strength, and refuge. Bryan explains that human status and ...

Psalms 61

Psalm 61

Psalm 61 is David's prayer from an overwhelmed heart for God to hear, lead, shelter, preserve, and give lasting hope. Bryan points to Jesus Christ as ...

Psalms 60

Psalm 60

Psalm 60 acknowledges that God has broken and disciplined his people while pleading for restoration and deliverance. Bryan teaches his children that G...

Psalms 59

Psalm 59

David asks God to judge wicked persecutors while resting in God's gracious favor; the imprecatory prayer ultimately belongs perfectly to Christ, the r...

Psalms 59

God Is

Psalm 59 is David's prayer for God to stop wicked enemies and defend his people. Bryan explains that Christians may pray for God's kingdom to end evil...

Psalms 58

Psalm 58

Psalm 58 confronts rulers who do not speak righteousness or judge uprightly. It describes the destructive speech and violence of the wicked, petitions...

Psalms 57

Psalm 57

While Saul hunts him, David takes refuge under God's wings and cries for mercy and deliverance. In the middle of danger, he remembers that the story i...

Psalms 56

Put my tears into your bottle

Psalm 56 records David's trust while captured by the Philistines. Bryan emphasizes that God hears prayer, sees and remembers every tear, saves his peo...

Psalms 56

Psalm 56

David is captured and threatened, yet trusts God, praises his Word, refuses fear, and takes comfort that God records every wandering and tear and rema...

Psalms 55

Psalm 55

David's heart is overwhelmed by danger and by the deeper wound of betrayal from a close companion who once worshiped with him. Rather than escaping on...

Psalms 54

Psalm 54

After the Ziphites betray David to Saul, he has no safe human refuge and cries to God for salvation, vindication, and a hearing. He confesses that God...

Psalms 53

Psalm 53

The fool denies God, but God sees that every person has turned aside and become corrupt, with none doing good. Those who refuse to call on him fear wh...

Psalms 52

Psalm 52

In its historical setting, Psalm 52 pronounces judgment on the deceitful enemy who opposes the Lord's anointed and trusts wealth and wickedness instea...

Psalms 51

A New Heart

Psalm 51 shows David honestly confessing adultery and murder, pleading for mercy and cleansing, and asking God for a clean heart and restored joy. Bry...