For thousands of years the book of Psalms has been one of God's people's richest resources for the expression of worship and the development of the spiritual life, and at the same time it is one of the more complex and challenging sections of the Bible for expositors. For each psalm Allen Ross guides the reader through a detailed exegetical outline, proposes a homiletical outline, and offers a summary expository idea of the message of the whole psalm.

Ross works from the Hebrew text and supplies his own translation with textual notes, then sets the psalm in its literary and historical context before moving to exposition. This is the first installment of a three-volume set covering the whole Psalter. Pastors, teachers and serious students will find it invaluable for preparing to preach or teach any psalm in the first book of the Psalter.