Old Testament
The Psalms are Israel's songbook and the believer's prayer book — 150 poems giving voice to faith in every season. The Psalter opens by setting two ways before us (Psalm 1): the blessed life rooted in delight in God's word, and the way of the wicked that perishes. Within it we find the whole range of the soul before God — the suffering Messiah's cry 'why have you forsaken me?' (Psalm 22, fulfilled at the cross), the quiet trust of 'the LORD is my shepherd' (Psalm 23), the repentance of 'create in me a clean heart' (Psalm 51), the enthroned priest-king at God's right hand (Psalm 110, the most quoted psalm in the New Testament), and the devotion to God's word as 'a lamp to my feet' (Psalm 119). The whole collection climbs from meditation toward unrestrained praise, ending with 'let everything that has breath praise the LORD' — teaching God's people to bring their grief, guilt, fear, and joy to him and turn it all to worship.
Open Psalms in the Atlas →Work through Psalms in the Atlas — passage by passage. Read the text, test your understanding, discover its themes, and watch how it connects across Scripture.