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Psalm Chapter 86 - A Prayer of David

Season 7 Episode 86

Psalm 86: The Undivided Heart

David asks for many things in this prayer — mercy, preservation, joy, a listening ear — but buried in the middle is the …

2 months, 2 weeks ago

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Psalm Chapter 85 - A Psalm for the sons of Korah

Season 7 Episode 85

Psalm 85: The Kiss of Mercy and Truth

This psalm contains what may be the most beautiful single image in all of Hebrew poetry: "Mercy and truth are me…

2 months, 2 weeks ago

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Psalm Chapter 84 - To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah

Season 7 Episode 84

Psalm 84: The Sparrow Who Found Her Home

Of all the images in the Psalter, few are as tender as this: a sparrow nesting in the altars of God. Not an e…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

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Psalm Chapter 83 - A Song or Psalm of Asaph

Season 7 Episode 83

Psalm 83: The Conspiracy That Named Itself

Asaph does something peculiar in this psalm: he names names. Edom, the Ishmaelites, Moab, the Hagarenes, Ge…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

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Psalm Chapter 82 - A Psalm of Asaph

Season 7 Episode 82

Psalm 82: The Gods Who Forgot They Were Mortal

Here is a scene so extraordinary that one can scarcely believe the Psalter contains it: God standing in…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

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Psalm Chapter 81

Season 7 Episode 81

Psalm 81: The Open Mouth and the Feast Refused

Here is one of the strangest and most heartbreaking invitations in all of Scripture. God himself speaks…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

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Psalm Chapter 80

Season 7 Episode 80

Psalm 80: The Vine That Waits for Light

There is a metaphor in this psalm so vivid it could be a painting: God as a gardener who once brought a vine o…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

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Psalm Chapter 79

Season 7 Episode 79

Psalm 79: The Ruins That Pray

Jerusalem is in heaps. The temple has been defiled. The dead lie unburied, given as meat to the birds of heaven and the …

2 months, 3 weeks ago

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Psalm Chapter 78

Season 7 Episode 78

Psalm 78: The Long Memory of Grace

Psalm 78 is the longest classroom in the Psalter — a vast, sprawling history lesson that Asaph opens with a curious…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

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Psalm Chapter 77

Season 7 Episode 77

Psalm 77: The Night That Remembered

This is the psalm for the sleepless, for those who have lain awake with a grief too large for words. Asaph tells u…

2 months, 4 weeks ago

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