Randall Johnson

Of Solomon – Psalm 72

This note from the ESV Study Bible is excellent: The last psalm of Book 2 is a

O God, from my youth you have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.

David's psalm is an urgent, quick prayer to Yahweh for deliverance. He wrote it

When democratic Presidential candidate Jimmy Carter admitted in an interview with

The lyrics to John Lennon's song, Imagine: Imagine there's no heaven, It's easy

Take a listen to a priest in Israel today, at the wailing wall in Jerusalem, singing

If by “answered prayer” we mean a “Yes” from God, a granting of our request,

On Thursday To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A Song. Praise is due to you,

My granddaughter worked for a coffee shop and a group of employees who didn't like

As you may have guessed by now, the editor of Psalms has bunched together several

This is the hardest thing for us to do, to put our trust in God alone, and even harder

Poetry is all about metaphors. There are many in this psalm. "From the end of

This psalm of David describes a situation the Scriptures do not otherwise give a

This is yet another psalm in which the header describes its situational origin as

It is easy in our modern world to recall rulers who embody evil and leave a path