Winner of 2025 Christianity Today Book Award, Bible and Devotion

The psalms cultivate a life of prayer grounded in Scripture. In Reading the Psalms as Scripture, James M. Hamilton Jr. and Matthew Damico guide the reader to delight in the spiritual artistry of the psalms. Psalms is a carefully arranged book saturated in Scripture. The psalmists drew from imagery and themes from earlier Scripture, which are then developed by later Scripture and fulfilled in Christ. The book of psalms advances God's grand story of redemption, and it gives us words to pray by drawing us into this story. When we meditate on the promises and patterns in the psalms, we can read, pray, and sing them with faithfulness.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Reading the Psalms as a Book
Reading the Psalms with Their Superscriptions
Reading the Psalms as Individual Compositions
Reading the Psalms in the Psalter
Reading the Psalms in Light of Earlier Scripture
Reading the Psalms and Messianic Typology
Reading the Psalms as Interpreted by Later Old Testament Authors
Reading the Psalms as Interpreted by New Testament Authors
Singing the Psalms as Christians
Seven Theses on How to Read the Psalms