To the chief Musician upon Nehiloth, a Psalm of David. This psalm, being written by David under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, is inscribed and sent to him who had the direction and management of the musical instruments used in religious worship in David's time, and afterwards in the...
1. DavidThe author of Psalm 51, King David wrote this psalm as a confession after being confronted by the prophet Nathan regarding his sin with Bathsheba.2. GodThe central figure to whom David is confessing his sin, acknowledging God's righteousness and justice.3. Nathan the ProphetThe ...
A psalm of David, when the prophet Nathan came to him after he had gone to Bathsheba. 1 Be gracious to me, God,according to your faithful love;according to your abundant compassion,blot out my rebellion.2 Completely wash away my guiltand cleanse me from my sin.3 For I am conscious of...
A Psalm of David. 41 Blessed is the one who considers the poor![d] In the day of trouble the Lord delivers him;2 the Lord protects him and keeps him alive; he is called blessed in the land; you do not give him up to the will of his enemies.3 The Lord sustains him on his...
Give each of the ten people to read every day, at any time they can, two Kathismas from the Psalter of David. Two Kathismas (16 Psalms) take about 15 minutes. That’s why we call them Kathismas. And where it writes, “Glory be to the Father…”, we get up and make three cros...
Psalm 40 1 Unto the end, a psalm for David himself. 2 Blessed is he that understandeth concerning the needy and the poor: the Lord will deliver him in the evil day. 3 The Lord preserve him and give him life, and make him blessed upon the earth: and deliver him not up to the...
that we understand who God is and the type of man He is looking for. The narrative builds a case for Saul’s deficiency and sets up the subsequent rise of David as a man after God’s own heart. And David as we know is a foreshadowing of the only true worshipper of God, Jesus ...
“Son” (descendant), the Messiah, will rule and reign. In the Davidic Covenant the promise made to the patriarchs would be both fulfilled and renewed. Like the Abrahamic Covenant, the Davidic Covenant looked into the future to the arrival of the promised Seed, the Messianic King (Isa. ...
gave it to Jeduthun and his company to sing. But several have supposed that Jeduthun himself was the author. It is very likely that this Psalm was written on the same occasion with the preceding. It relates to a grievous malady by which David was afflicted after his transgression with Bath...
of Job, Jonas, etc., and here also of David. Thirdly, albeit the Lord delay his coming to relieve his saints, yet hath he great cause if we could ponder it; for when we were in the heat of our sins, many times he cried by the mouth of his prophets and servants, "O fools, how...