This is the second volume of a practical and readable introduction to the Psalms which effectively unfolds the text and meaning as songs for the people of God. The expositions represent Michael Wilcock's attempts over many years to unfold God's Word to real people confronting the raw questions of life in the church and in the world. He sees the Psalter as a collection, an anthology, a hymnal, a book of songs. It is full of pictures that show us a variety of places in a land of spiritual experience. In his view it is important for Christians today to appropriate the range of human emotion that is embodied in the Psalms. We also need their imaginative vitality. The book will be helpful in using the Psalms in church services, and includes an exposition of every Psalm, long or short, familiar or neglected.

The Bible Speaks Today series covers every book of the Old and New Testaments, as well as Bible themes that run through the whole of Scripture. These revised editions are updated with contemporary language and Bible translations to help you to follow and to teach the Bible in today's world.

Michael Wilcock is a former Director of Pastoral Studies at Trinity College, Bristol and minister of St Nicholas' Church, Durham. As well as The Message of 1and 2 Chronicles he is the author of The Bible Speaks Today commentaries on Judges, Psalms, Luke and Revelation.

Book III (Psalms 73 - 89)

1. The Asaph Collection (Psalms 73 - 83) 1

2. The second Korah Collection (Psalms 84 - 89) 47

Book IV (Psalms 90 - 106)

3. The first Exodus Collection (Psalms 90 - 106) 76

Book V (Psalms 107 - 150)

4. A further Exodus psalm and the third David Collection

(Psalms 107 - 110) 153

5. Three acrostics and the first Hallel (Psalms 111 - 119) 178

6. The Songs of Ascents (Psalms 120 - 134) 234

7. The second Exodus Collection and the fourth David Collection

(Psalms 135 - 145) 264

8. The final Hallel (Psalms 146 - 150) 296