Die Afrikaanse Protestantse Akademie Biblioteek

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

v. 1. Psalms 1-41: Ps. 1: Promises to keep in mind (I) -- Ps. 2: Promises to keep in mind (II) -- Ps. 3: The question of deliverance -- Ps. 4: Who shows us good? -- Ps. 5: Responding to Life-threatening falsehood (I) -- Ps. 6: Responding to Life-threatening falsehood (II) -- Ps. 7: On trial, in battle, hunted -- Ps. 8: Humanity's position in creation -- Ps. 9-10: How to pray against the Powerful -- Ps. 11: Stay of flit? -- Ps. 12: Responding to faithless triviality -- Ps. 13: How long, how long, how long, how long? -- Ps. 14: The scoundrel -- Ps. 15: Qualifications for staying with God -- Ps. 16: Trust in God for life -- Ps. 17: Yhwh's eyes, lips, right hand and face -- Ps. 18: God's acts and David's acts -- Ps. 19: The fiery cosmos and the encouraging law -- Ps. 20: A blessing for the King -- Ps. 21: The implications of someone else's deliverance -- Ps. 22: Prayer that Honors two sets of facts -- Ps. 23: God as our Shepherd and Host -- Ps. 24: Yhwh's ownership of the world. Conditions for approacing Yhwh, admitting Yhwh to the city -- Ps. 25: The bases of Prayer from A to Z -- Ps. 26: Prayer and moral integrity -- Ps. 27: Prayer arising out of Testimony -- Ps. 28: Praying for the punishment of the faithless -- Ps. 29: The power of Yhwh's Voice -- Ps. 30: How to give your testimony -- Ps. 31: When a prayer needs to be prayed twice -- Ps. 32: When suffering issues from sin -- Ps. 33: The Creator and the Lord of history -- Ps. 34: Deliverance by Yhwh and reverence for Jhwh -- Ps. 35: How to respond to attack -- Ps. 36: Human faitlessness and Divine commitment -- Ps. 37: The weak will take posession of the land -- Ps. 38: Suffering and sin -- Ps. 39: Living in light of the fact that we will die -- Ps. 40: Testimony warrants -- Ps. 41: The good fortune of the person who thinks -- Ps. 41:13: Coda to Psalms: Yes! Yes!

v. 2 Psalms 42-89: Ps. 42-43: Coping with separation from God's Presence -- Ps. 44: Coping with defeat --Ps. 45: The true King and the true Queen -- Ps. 46: Trust and stop -- Ps. 47: God has begun to reign -- Ps. 48: God made known in the city of God -- Ps. 49: Can death be secaped? -- Ps. 50: Worship and life -- Ps. 51: Sin, cleansing, renewal -- Ps. 52: Divine and human commitment -- Ps. 53: Is God there? -- Ps. 54: The Name that rescues -- Ps. 55: How to throw things at Yhwh -- Ps. 56: Fear of humanity, trust in God -- Ps. 57: Simultaneously expecting and possessing --Ps. 58: The Gods must and will fulfill their responsibility -- Ps. 59: How to pray in terror -- Ps. 60: Ho to claim God's past Word -- Ps. 61: How prayer suspends the distantness -- Ps. 62: The heart of Old Testament Theology -- Ps. 63: A threefold dynamic for life -- Ps. 64: The power of language and the power of recollection -- Ps. 65: Politics and harvest, Israel and the world -- Ps. 66: Praise and thanksgiving, community and individual, Israel and the world -- Ps. 67: Blessed for the sake of the world -- Ps. 68: God then and now -- Ps. 69: When people mock zeal for Yhwh's house -- Ps. 70: A plea for haste -- Ps. 71: The God of past, present and future -- Ps. 72: A vision for government -- Ps. 72:18-20: Coda to book II -- Ps. 73: Yes, God will restore me -- Ps. 74: What is permanent? --Ps. 75: In your way and in your time -- Ps. 76: The pain and the hope of recollection -- Ps. 78: The story that needs passing on -- Ps.79: When nations attack us and scorn God -- Ps. 80: Praying for Joseph -- Ps. 81: Do listen! -- Ps. 82: God must accept responsibility -- Ps. 83: Confrontation, shame, death, acknowledgment -- Ps. 84: The double good fortune of the trusting person -- Ps. 85: God speaks of Shalom -- Ps. 86: A servant's claim on his Master -- Ps. 87: The nations as citizens of Zion -- Ps. 88: Abba Father -- Ps. 89: Facing two sets of facts (again) -- Ps. 89:52: Coda to book III

v.3. Psalms 90-150.: Ps. 90: Yhwh and time -- Ps. 91: Shadow of the Almighty -- Ps. 92: Testimony, praise and teaching -- Ps. 93: Yhwh began to reign -- Ps. 94: God of redress -- Ps. 95: Praise, prostration, obedience -- Ps. 96: Why Yhwh comes -- Ps. 97: Yhwh began to reign: Earth is to recjoice -- Ps. 98: God of Israel, God of the world -- Ps. 99: Holy Name, Holy Place, Holy God -- Ps. 100: Summons to all the earth -- Ps. 101: Leaderhip with integrity -- Ps. 102: My time, our time and Yhwh's time -- Ps. 103: Restoration, individual and communal -- Ps. 104: Yhwh in relation to creation and then and now -- Ps. 105: Yhwh is still the same -- Ps. 106: Recognizing Yhwh's Judgment -- Ps. 106:48: Coda to book IV -- Ps. 107: Yhwh has indeed restored Israel -- Ps. 108: Claiming God's promises -- Ps. 109: How to pray for recompense -- Ps. 110: King and priest -- Ps. 111: Worship and wisdom -- Ps. 112: Beatitudes -- Ps. 113: Yhwh sits on high, looks down low -- Ps. 114: Still the God of the Exodus -- Ps. 115: God and other objects of trust -- Ps. 116: How to give your testimony (II) -- Ps. 117: Much in a small compass -- Ps. 118: The stone spurned -- Ps. 119: The dynamics of the moral life -- Ps. 120: War and peace -- Ps. 121: Yhwh as helper, maker, guard -- Ps. 122: For Jerusalem -- Ps. 123: The servant looks to the master -- Ps. 124: Our help is Yhwh's Name -- Ps. 125: Well-being on Israel -- Ps. 126: Weeping and laughter -- Ps. 127: Yhwh gives, Yhwh fills -- Ps. 128: Work, home, family -- Ps. 129: The promise of empty harvest -- Ps. 130: From the depths of trouble and waywardness -- Ps. 131: How I gave up trying to fix things and so should you -- Ps. 132: The reciprocity of prayer -- Ps. 133: How wondrous is living as one -- Ps. 134: The reciprocity of praise and blessing -- Ps. 135: How to use Scripture in praise -- Ps. 136: Yhwh's commitment -- Ps. 137: Being mindful of Jerusalem -- Ps. 138: Before Gods, kings, enemies -- Ps. 139: Yhwh can know all about me -- Ps. 140: Caught in their own trap -- Ps. 141: Set a watch at my mouth -- Ps. 142: How to get prayer to work -- Ps. 143: No living person is faithful before You -- Ps. 144: The interplay between past praise and present context -- Ps. 145: Thine is the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory, forever and ever -- Ps. 146: On leaders -- Ps. 147: God of cosmos, congregation and city -- Ps. 148: Creation's ring of praise -- Ps. 149: Preparing to leave the sanctuary -- Ps. 150: The end of prayer is praise