Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Newsletter Signup
3. Endorsements
4. Other Crossway Books
5. Title Page
6. Copyright
7. Dedication
8. Contents
9. Preface
10. Abbreviations
11. Commentary on
12. Book 1
13. This statement [“Blessed is the man”] should be understood of our Lord Jesus Christ.
14. Psalm 1
15. The Holy Spirit . . . teaches and consoles us in this psalm so that we cling bravely to this
16. Psalm 2
17. When someone sings the 3rd Psalm, recognizing his own afflictions he will treat the words of the Psalm as his
18. Psalm 3
19. To be free from all fear, and from the torment and vexation of care, is a blessing to be desired
20. Psalm 4
21. The kingdom that I seek
22. Psalm 5
23. It is possible, that a true believer, who had been ofttimes refreshed with the sense of God’s favour, may, by
24. Psalm 6
25. And if someone is plotting something against you, . . . and you are informed about this, sing Psalm 7
26. Psalm 7
27. This psalm is . . . a glorious prophecy about Christ, where David describes Christ’s person and kingdom and teaches
28. Psalm 8
29. [Psalm 9] cries aloud about the destruction of the devil that occurred [i.e., at the ascension]: You [Christ] sat upon
30. Psalm 9
31. This description represents, as in a mirror, a lively image of a widely corrupt and disorganised state of society. When,
32. Psalm 10
33. And whenever someone wants to stir up a lot of trouble for you, have confidence in the Lord and sing
34. Psalm 11
35. And when you witness the arrogance of the crowd and increasing evil, so much so that nothing is considered holy
36. Psalm 12
37. And if you are waylaid by the snare of your enemies, do not desert your post as if you were
38. Psalm 13
39. It was right to show openly the magnitude of the disease . . . before the advent of the Savior;
40. Psalm 14
41. If you want to learn what citizenship in the kingdom of heaven is like, sing Psalm 15.
42. Psalm 15
43. The words in [Psalm 16] are sung as if by the person of Christ, who although he is noble as
44. Psalm 16
45. This psalm is to be assigned to the Lord in person, together with the Church, which is his body.
46. Psalm 17
47. [In Psalm 18] the whole Christ is speaking, and all his members are contained in him.
48. Psalm 18
49. The Lord Jesus Christ does not say these words, but they are said about him.
50. Psalm 19
51. The Prophet, filled with the knowledge of the future, prays that those prosperous events may happen to the Holy Church,
52. Psalm 20
53. When you want to sing about the Savior on your own in private, you will find such things about the
54. Psalm 21
55. In the 22nd Psalm it speaks from the Savior’s own person of the kind of death he would undergo. .
56. Psalm 22
57. When Christian had travelled in this disconsolate condition some considerable time, he thought he heard the voice of a man,
58. Psalm 23
59. When our Christ arose from the dead and ascended into heaven, the heavenly princes chosen by God were ordered to
60. Psalm 24
61. Your enemies surround you; nevertheless when you lift up your soul to God exclaim Psalm 25.
62. Psalm 25
63. When your enemies persist, having nothing other than hands filled with blood and they are seeking to drag you down
64. Psalm 26
65. This is a beautiful psalm of thanksgiving and comfort. In it David, indeed Christ himself with all his faithful, gives
66. Psalm 27
67. The psalm [Ps. 28] . . . refers to Christ, including the prayer of Christ that he prayed at the
68. Psalm 28
69. This is a psalm of the strong-armed Mediator concerning the perfection of the Church in this world, where it wages
70. Psalm 29
71. Because your Head is risen, you, his . . . members, must hope for yourselves what you believe to have
72. Psalm 30
73. O Lord, in thee have I trusted: let me never be confounded.
74. Psalm 31
75. Augustine . . . often read this Psalm with weeping heart and eyes, and before his death had it written
76. Psalm 32
77. Is there a wild beast on the rampage? Fear only God. Is the serpent sneaking in? Fear only God. Does
78. Psalm 33
79. This David foreseeth shall be the fruit of God’s mercy to him, when men, seeing him delivered, shall look to
80. Psalm 34
81. [Psalm 35] has come to us through the prophet at the prompting of Christ’s Spirit, and in its words we
82. Psalm 35
83. This is a psalm of powerful contrasts, a glimpse of human wickedness at its most malevolent, and divine goodness in
84. Psalm 36
85. I was never worried for a second about a man like Hitler. It was enough for me to read the
86. Psalm 37
87. This Psalm shows that if any sickness happens to the body, we are thereby taught to seek for the medicine
88. Psalm 38
89. Moreover if you see the enemy attacking when you set out to devote yourself to God (for this is the
90. Psalm 39
91. The words of David, the anointed one . . . are so moulded by the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of
92. Psalm 40
93. And certainly we ought to understand that, although David speaks of himself in this psalm, yet he speaks not as
94. Psalm 41
95. Book 2
96. So that the sadness of this world should not seize his mind, or his mind undergo the hazards of desperation,
97. Psalms 42–43
98. The experience of the righteous man has now become the experience of the righteous remnant, partaking of the dynamic between
99. Psalm 44
100. We have joyfully sung this psalm with you, and now I beg you to study it carefully with us. It
101. Psalm 45
102. Christ appears in the midst of His Church and has deigned to build it on Himself as on the firmest
103. Psalm 46
104. Psalm 16 brings to light [Christ’s] resurrection from the dead, while Psalms 24 and 47 announce his ascension to the
105. Psalm 47
106. [God] erected [the city] both properly and solidly . . . on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with
107. Psalm 48
108. So the apostolic choir [his term for the sons of Korah] transmitted in word of mouth the wisdom of God—Christ,
109. Psalm 49
110. This psalm is a citing [legal summons] of the visible church before God, the Judge of all the earth .
111. Psalm 50
112. Epigraph Sources
113. Bibliography
114. Subject Index
115. Name Index
116. Scripture Index