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Week 30. Day 1. Psalms 107-112.
As you read book 5 of the psalms, look for two repeated refrains:
- Praise the LORD
- Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, His love endures forever
Psalm 107
How does Psalm 107 compare to Ps 106? In particular:
- Compare the beginning of Ps 107 to the beginning of Ps 106
- Compare the beginning of Ps 107 to the end of Ps 106
Bonus: Try to identify the repeated pattern in Ps 107.
Psalm 106 ended with a prayer that God would gather his exiled people from among the nations. Ps 107 opens with a celebration that God has done this (v1-3)!! Ps 107 has a repeated pattern:
- people getting into distress (poetic descriptions of exile)
- calling out to the Lord and him delivering them
- a call for them to thank the Lord for his steadfast love.
This psalm celebrates that God brings his children home, and that they should praise him for it!
Ps 108-110 A ‘David’ collection
Ps 109. It is probably best not to see this as a direct prophecy of the betrayal of Jesus, but rather about David and his accusers in the first instance. But Peter quotes v8 in Acts 1:20 as referring to Judas. This is an example of ‘typology’ (the word ‘type’ just means ‘pattern’). In other words, the things that happened to David were intended as patterns to foreshadow and point to what would happen to Jesus.
Ps 110 - the most quoted Psalm in the New Testament
This is one of the few psalms that seems to be direct Messianic prophecy. David is speaking about the future Messiah - i.e. in David’s day they would not have known who the psalm was speaking about, other than the future king.
- How does Jesus use this Psalm in Matt 22:41-45
- How does this picture fit with the king of Ps 2? Are there significant differences?
NOTE: Days 1-5 of each week contain the scripture reading for that week. Day 6 has just the 'key chapters'. If you want a briefer version of this plan that still takes you through the whole Bible, you could just read the key chapters featured on day 6. Day 7 has the podcast video where we discuss the week's reading.
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