Like David's model prayer of confession in Psalm 51, he cries out God be merciful to me, the sinner.

But notice that David's doxology isn't just a psalm of thanksgiving, rather it's an acknowledgement that

souls; it is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path in the midst of this world darkened by sin (Psalm

that David felt internal guilt for the sins he had committed, as he writes about it so poignantly in Psalm

the Israelites - just praying that the bad things be taken away rather than praying like David in Psalm

They would have also been familiar with the Old Testament metaphor of Israel as God’s vineyard (Psalm

We might expect Jesus' answer here would end up making Psalm 119 look short.

But the devil throws Scripture right back at Jesus as he tempts Him the third time, quoting Psalm 91:

Jesus’ cry is a fulfillment of Psalm 22, which begins with the very same words written by David hundreds

Every Friday here in this space we read a Psalm (and many of our churches sing them often), and the book