Book1 of Psalms is poetically like Genesis. It starts with a man who is like a tree of life and ends wit a man who is betrayed like Joseph. Jesus quotes the final Psalm at the last supper.

1. Key changes in the Psalms
Unexpected discord in 3 movements
Psalms book 2 Psalms 42-72
The myriad uses of musical dissonance: above, a
caricature of Arnold SchoenbergCredit...Ralph Steadman
See Musical Dissonance, From Schumann to Sondheim -
The New York Times (nytimes.com)

2. Book 1 ended with a man betrayed for the salvation
of the world, as Genesis ended with the account of
Joseph

3. Taste and see
That the LORD is good!
Psalm
34
The word of God
Bookends
Inherit the nations
Bookends
The meek
will inherit
the earth
Show
me my
end
Betrayal by
an anti-
friend
pain
Psalm 41
quoted at the
last supper by
Jesus

4. The laments ending Book 1 continue in Book 2

5. • Laments start in 42 and 43
• Laments continue until a persecution Psalm in 44.
• Laments broken by a ‘love song’, ‘wedding
song’ in Psalm 45
• A women chorus singing after in Psalm 46
Sung in high voices
• The nations applause, clapping, rejoicing in 47, 48

6. A group of Psalm on judgement and redemption

7. • All people addressed in Psalm 49 about the need for redemption
• God’s people addressed in Psalm 50 about the need for
thanksgiving as a pleasing sacrifice
• The centerpiece a Psalm of David in Psalm 51
appealing to God’s attribute of lovingkindness. A
broken and contrite heart You will not despise
• The wicked judged in Psalm 52
• Poster boy is Doeg the Edomite who killed the priests in David’s
day
• The fool acts like there is no God leading to no one good no not one in
Psalm 53 (echo of Psalm 14)

8. A group of prayer Psalms

9. A group of prayer psalms
• Save me Psalm 54 and 55
• Have mercy on me in 56 and 57
• A long view. God contrasted with godz and bad
judges Psalm 58
The son inherits the earth in Ps 2, the pure, the
humble the righteous in Psalm 25, the meek inherit the
earth in 37 and God inherits the earth in Psalm 58
• Deliver me Psalm 59 and a prayer to a God who feels like He
rejected us in Psalm 60
• A prayer for a safe refuge Psalm 61 and 62

10. Godward Psalms touching Zion and the whole earth
• I seek You and will be satisfied in You Psalm 63
• A prayer against secret plots Psalm 64
• A praise Psalm from Zion Psalm 65
• A praise Psalm from the whole earth Psalm 66
• May God be gracious to us AND let the nations in on it and be
glad Psalm 67

11. Last please for help before the end of Book 2
Psalm 70 Make haste to deliver
Psalm 71 In you I take refuge
And
In Psalm 72 God will fill the earth with His fruit

12. Psalm 68 God in history victoriously moving with
the ark, even up Mt Zion which is seen as Christ
ascending in Ephesians 4
Psalm 69 a Psalm reflecting on the suffering of Christ
which makes the victory possible

13. A Song of Solomon in 72
Ending book 2
God’s fruit reaching the world with even wheat
growing on tops of mountains.
A subtle dissonance and prayer ‘May your glory fill
the earth” contrasts with the cherubim around
God’s throne claim “Your glory fills the earth’
(does it fill the earth but unseen/unrealized by eyes
unopen?)

14. Key changes in the Psalms
Unexpected discord in 3 movements
Psalms book 2 Psalms 42-72
fin’
The myriad uses of musical dissonance: above, a
caricature of Arnold SchoenbergCredit...Ralph Steadman
See Musical Dissonance, From Schumann to Sondheim -
The New York Times (nytimes.com)