Futato’s commentary on the Psalms

Do check out Mark Futato’s newest commentary on the Psalter.

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The Power of Heaven Let Loose on Earth

In a sermon at the Eucharist and Baptism in Durham Cathedral on the feast of Pentecost entitled “The Power of Heaven Let Loose on Earth” Bishop N. T. Wright made reference to Psalm 2:
In Psalm 2, to which the early Christians looked back as they pondered the mystery of who Jesus really was, the nations [...]

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C.J. Mahaney on Psalm 42

The Troubled Soul
Psalm 42
15 June 2009
Palm Springs, CA
download MP3 (63.4MB)

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Psalm 118 in Luke-Acts

Read J. Ross Wagner’s “Psalm 118 in Luke-Acts: Tracing a Narrative Thread” in Early Christian Interpretation of the Scriptures of Israel edited by Craig A. Evans & James A. Sanders here (pp. 154ff.).

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Milton’s paraphrase of Ps. 8

O Jehovah our Lord how wondrous great
And glorious is thy name through all the earth?
So as above the Heavens thy praise to set
Out of the tender mouths of latest bearth,
Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings thou
Hast founded strength because of all thy foes
To stint th’ enemy, and slack th’ avengers brow
That bends his [...]

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Milton’s paraphrase of Psalm 2

WHy do the Gentiles tumult, and the Nations
Muse a vain thing, the Kings of th’ earth upstand
With power, and Princes in their Congregations
Lay deep their plots together through each Land,
Against the Lord and his Messiah dear.
Let us break off, say they, by strength of hand
Their bonds, and cast from us, no more to wear,
Their twisted [...]

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Milton’s paraphrase of Psalm 1

Bless’d is the man who hath not walk’d astray
In counsel of the wicked, and ith’ way
Of sinners hath not stood, and in the seat
Of scorners hath not sate. But in the great
Jehovahs Law is ever his delight,
And in his Law he studies day and night.
He shall be as a tree which planted grows
By watry streams, [...]

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Milton’s Paraphrase of Psalm 114

WHEN the blest seed of Terah’s faithful son
After long toil their liberty had won,
And past from Pharian fields to Canaan land,
Led by the strength of the Almighty’s hand,
Jehovah’s wonders were in Israel shown,
His praise and glory was in Israel known.
That saw the troubled sea, and shivering fled,
And sought to hide his froth-becurlèd head
Low in the [...]

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Carson and the Psalms in Hebrews

Below are D.A. Carson’s addresses at the “Word within the Word” conference at Union University:

Psalm 2:7 and 2 Samuel 7:14 in Hebrews 1 |
Psalm 95 in Hebrews 3–4
Genesis 14 and Psalm 110 in Hebrews 7

(HT: Justin Taylor)

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D. A. Carson Audio on Psalms

Below are four messages D. A. Carson gave at the UCCF Staff Conference.
Psalm 1
Psalm 2
Psalm 40
Psalm 110
(HT: James H. Grant, Jr)

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