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Psalm Chapter 43

Season 7 Episode 43

Psalm 43: Send Out Thy Light

This brief psalm is almost certainly the final stanza of Psalm 42 — it shares the same refrain, the same ache, the same d…

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Psalm Chapter 42

Season 7 Episode 42

Psalm 42: The Thirst That Teaches

"As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God." The image is not decorative — it…

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Psalm Chapter 41

Season 7 Episode 41

Psalm 41: The Friend Who Lifted His Heel

This psalm closes the first book of the Psalter, and it does so with a wound. "Yea, mine own familiar friend,…

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Psalm Chapter 40

Season 7 Episode 40

Psalm 40: The New Song from the Pit

The psalm begins with a completed rescue. "I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my …

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Psalm Chapter 39

Season 7 Episode 39

Psalm 39: The Brevity That Burns

David tried to stay silent. He bridled his tongue, held his peace — even from good, he tells us, which is a remarkabl…

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Psalm Chapter 38

Season 7 Episode 38

Psalm 38: A Body That Keeps the Score

If Psalm 32 describes the relief of confession, Psalm 38 gives us the full, unsparing portrait of what the silen…

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Psalm Chapter 37

Season 7 Episode 37

Psalm 37: The Patience of the Righteous

This is a psalm for everyone who has ever watched a scoundrel prosper and felt their stomach tighten with some…

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Psalm Chapter 36

Season 7 Episode 36

Psalm 36: The Fountain of Life

The psalm begins in a place we might not expect — inside the mind of the wicked. "The transgression of the wicked saith…

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Psalm Chapter 35

Season 7 Episode 35

Psalm 35: The Wound of Betrayal

There is a particular anguish that belongs to the one who loved first and was repaid with cruelty. David does not mere…

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Psalm Chapter 34

Season 7 Episode 34

Psalm 34: Taste and See

The heading of this psalm tells us something easily missed: David wrote it after pretending to be mad before a foreign king in…

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