Help for rightly reading and understanding the Psalms // Seeing the artistry of the Psalter

[@philtheo]

Looks like it'll be a great video! Can't wait! 😊 Currently my favorite commentary on the Psalms is the great Alec Motyer's little known commentary in the New Bible Commentary. There's so much helpful information, wisdom and insight, and pastoral edification in that little commentary. For example, David Gibson has written (I believe) the single best exposition on Psalm 23 titled The Lord of Psalm 23, and in this book Gibson openly acknowledges his indebtedness to Motyer and Gibson states he used Motyer's framework or structure for Psalm 23.

[@parksideevangelicalchurch2886]

Please remember: Jesus sang the psalms! If your church does't consciously sing the psalms, ask your pastor why your church doesn't sing the songs comforted and guided Jesus and that he used to sing the praises of his heavenly Father. There's a long tradition of translating the psalms into rhyming poetry like hymns and then singing them to hymn tunes. Here's some resources for singing Psalms to hymn tunes. The "KJV" of psalters is the 1650 Scottish Psalter, however there are a number of modern language psalters. Crown and Covenant have published "The Book of Psalms for Worship" for the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America. The Free Church of Scotland have produced "Sing Psalm" and the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland have published "The Psalms for Singing, a 21st Century Version." We're not a Psalms Only church but we regularly sing psalms as part of our "psalms, hymns and spiritual songs." (See Eph 5:19 & Col 3:16). Does your church?