The Book of Psalms

This is the biblical book of 150 Hebrew poems used as hymns and prayers in Jewish and Christian worship. Speakers address God in complaint, thanksgiving, royal praise, and wisdom instruction; typical subjects are illness, exile, enemies, the king, Zion, and the law. Individual psalms are attributed in headings to David and others, though the collection as a whole is an assembled hymnal from many periods of ancient Israel. There is no continuous narrative. The volume is a liturgical and lyric anthology, not a history of Israel and not a single author's sequence.

Bound in dark blue cloth, title gilt blocked on cover.