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Psalm 1
- Purpose
- To offer praise and prayer to God, to supply God’s people with texts for worship, and to provide reflection on the sovereignty of God and some of life’s toughest questions
- Author
- Various; nearly half are linked with David
- Date
- Written over the course of many centuries; the process of collecting and editing was likely completed after the Babylonian exile
- Setting
- Varied, but a postexilic setting accounts for much of the editorial activity and grouping of the psalms
Psalms has 36,194 words: about 2 hours 32 minutes to read, or 4 hours 18 minutes to listen to. Read it from the start or listen from the start.
Outline: the section headings
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Headings from the Berean Standard Bible.
The full introduction to Psalms opens beside chapter 1, in the Tyndale commentary.
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Footnotes
The Two Paths
1Blessed is the manwho does not walk in the counsel of the wicked,or set foot on the path of sinners,or sit in the seat of mockers. 2But his delight is in the Law of the LORD,and on His law he meditates day and night. 3He is like a tree planted by streams of water,yielding its fruit in season,whose leaf does not wither,and who prospers in all he does.
4Not so the wicked!For they are like chaff driven off by the wind. 5Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
6For the LORD guards the path of the righteous,but the way of the wicked will perish.
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