Jeremiah 4 opens a door of repentance while the trumpet of judgment sounds from the north. The chapter urges heart-circumcision, exposes false peace, and anchors hope in God’s preserving mercy that promises rebuilding after ruin.
Isaiah 15 names Moab’s cities as a night of ruin falls and lets their wail reach the borders. The prophet’s own heart cries even as streams run dry and blood stains the river, preparing the way for chapter 16’s call to seek shelter under a throne established in faithful love.
Psalm 142 teaches believers to turn caves into chapels. David cries aloud, calls God his refuge and portion, and asks for freedom so that praise will rise and the righteous will gather around mercy’s fresh work.
Psalm 137 weeps by Babylon’s rivers, swears fidelity to Jerusalem, and entrusts justice to God against betrayers and conquerors. The psalm equips worshipers to lament honestly, remember faithfully, and hope for the day when the Lord keeps every promise to Zion.
Maskils are instructive psalms that teach through worship. From confession to history and lament, they form wise hearts by joining truth to song and guiding God’s people in every season.
Psalm 89 binds praise to God’s sworn promise to David and then dares to lament when that promise seems buried under defeat. It trains believers to pray the oath back to God and to wait for the King who keeps his word.
Psalm 88 preserves a believer’s voice in unrelieved darkness, teaching honest prayer and steady trust when rescue is not yet seen. Its hard-won lines train the church to carry one another through the night and to keep calling on the God who saves.
Psalm 77 moves from raw midnight questions to the firm ground of God’s record, centering on the Exodus and the Shepherd’s hidden guidance. It teaches believers to remember, confess, and follow the One whose path is clear even when his footprints are not.
Asaph’s maskil faces a burned sanctuary and silent skies without surrendering faith. By recalling the Creator-King and appealing to covenant, the psalm turns ruins into bold intercession for God’s honor and the praise of the poor and needy.
Psalm 69 moves from drowning lament to defiant praise, revealing the righteous sufferer and the God who hears the needy. It anticipates Christ’s zeal and cross while promising Zion’s restoration and comfort for the poor.
Betrayed by a close friend and surrounded by civic chaos, David turns panic into petition and burden into trust. This chapter study traces Psalm 55’s move from fear to steady confidence in the Lord who hears, sustains, and judges justly.
Psalm 43 moves from “Vindicate me” to “I will yet praise him,” asking for God’s light and faithful care to lead back to the holy mountain. It keeps worship as the goal of guidance and the proof of hope.
Psalm 42 follows a downcast soul from tears to tenacious hope. Longing meets memory, prayer, and a repeated resolve to praise the living God again.
Psalm 31 weaves refuge, lament, and praise around the confession that our times are in God’s hands. Learn how entrustment, honest prayer, and corporate courage shape a steady life.
Psalm 22 gives words for seasons of silence and scorn, then turns to vows of praise and a horizon of global worship. In Jesus the righteous sufferer is vindicated, and the church joins His song to the ends of the earth.