Steven J. Cole, "Psalm 130: Out of the Depths"

Ray C. Stedman, "Psalms: The Worship of an Honest Heart"

L. Michael Morales, "Jesus and the Psalms" The Gospel Coalition, April 11, 2011.

"How can we make sense of such a large, variegated and at times ‘strange’ book as the Psalms? How can we make best use of this ancient prayer book that God has provided for us?" Tony Payne, "God’s Prayer Book" Ministry Training Strategy paper.

Philip Yancey, "The Bible Jesus Read" Christianity Today | January 11, 1999.

Steven J. Cole takes a stab at addressing what he calls "the most difficult verse in the book of Psalms" in his article "Psalm 137: Difficult Words, But True."

Jacob Goodson, "The Psalms of Vengeance: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Theological Interpretation of the Psalms" The Journal of Scriptural Reasoning

"If we want to read and to pray the prayers of the Bible and especially the Psalms… we must not ask first what they have to do with us, but what they have to do with Jesus Christ. We must ask how we can understand the Psalms as God’s Word, and then we shall be able to pray them. It does not depend, therefore, on whether the Psalms express adequately that which we feel at a given moment in our heart. If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart." (Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Eberhard Bethge. Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible. Minneapolis: Augsburg Pub. House, 1970. Quoted by Matthew Candler on his website The Psalter.

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