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• Our study of lament psalms will hopefully provide a basis for a theology of lament.
• When he was baptized in solidarity with all humanity, the recitation of a psalm gave clarity to his earthly mission. In his nakedness and cruel suffering on the cross, it was with a psalm that he died.8 As the epistle to the Hebrews comments, “in the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears, to him who...
• Our biblical exegete, Dr. Bruce Waltke, professor emeritus of biblical studies, Regent College, has devoted much of his academic life to the textual study of the Psalms, to give us, like Calvin before him, “the plain meaning of the text.”16 His exegetical studies comprise the central substance of our book. Dr. James Houston, founding principal of R...
• Chapter 1 The Psalms as the Christian’s Lament
• If, as John Calvin asserted, “the Psalms are the mirror of the soul,” then lament is a major element. For more than a third of the Psalter consists of “lament psalms.” Some forty-two are individual laments, and another sixteen are corporate laments.