The Bible by David Alley

This is part of a video series covering the entire Bible in 4 years, one chapter at a time. Start at the beginning with Genesis 1 (Youtube link: https://youtu.be/wC2qD4RGOdo ) and work through the playlist. Or go to https://www.peace.org.au/bible.html to select any specific Bible chapter, or for more information. In this video listen to Psalms 74 read by David Alley, followed by comments and praye...

This is part of a video series covering the entire Bible in 4 years, one chapter at a time. Start at the beginning with Genesis 1 (Youtube link: https://youtu.be/wC2qD4RGOdo ) and work through the playlist. Or go to https://www.peace.org.au/bible.html to select any specific Bible chapter, or for more information. In this video listen to Psalms 73 read by David Alley, followed by comments and praye...

This is part of a video series covering the entire Bible in 4 years, one chapter at a time. Start at the beginning with Genesis 1 (Youtube link: https://youtu.be/wC2qD4RGOdo ) and work through the playlist. Or go to https://www.peace.org.au/bible.html to select any specific Bible chapter, or for more information. In this video listen to Psalms 72 read by David Alley, followed by comments and praye...

This is part of a video series covering the entire Bible in 4 years, one chapter at a time. Start at the beginning with Genesis 1 (Youtube link: https://youtu.be/wC2qD4RGOdo ) and work through the playlist. Or go to https://www.peace.org.au/bible.html to select any specific Bible chapter, or for more information. In this video listen to Psalms 71 read by David Alley, followed by comments and praye...

In this video listen to Psalms 70 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In Psalms 70 we have a short little psalm containing a prayer for those in need of an urgent and immediate response from God. It is also an almost verbatim copy of five verses out of Psalm 40. A psalm for those who need God to do something…. NOW.

In this video listen to Psalms 69 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In Psalms 69 we have a messianic psalm similar to psalm 22 - a reflection of Christ’s passion week. Christ himself quotes from this psalm several times. It reflects a moment in david’s life when he was in great trouble, and is prophetic of the great trouble the Lord went through for us.

In this video listen to Psalms 68 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In Psalms 68 we sing a great song of praise and imprecation, when David had just become king and was rising up to defeat his enemies. He says… “Let God arise! Let his enemies be scattered.” God’s enemies are his enemies and this psalm is a song of attack.

In this video listen to Psalms 67 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In Psalms 67 we have an unexpected prayer… for the conversion of the gentiles. If there was ever a Jew, or a Pharisee who thought the blessings of Abraham was for them alone, this psalm is a witness against them. We are blessed, so that others might also be blessed

In this video listen to Psalms 66 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In Psalms 66 the psalmist calls the earth to praise the Lord with joy… and the earth is the nations, meaning the gentile peoples. Why would a Jew call the Gentiles to praise the Lord…. because this psalm is about the Lord’s deliverance of Jerusalem and the defeat of Sennacherib and the Assyrian army. The whole...

In this video listen to Psalms 65 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In Psalms 65 we have a psalm of common grace. It is a psalm of praise outlining the things that God does for all humanity, even if they don’t know about it. Someone overwhelmed by depression and pain can simultaneously be surrounded by God’s goodness but doesn’t see a drop of it. And also, regular people see th...

In this video listen to Psalms 64 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In Psalms 64 we have a psalm about conspiracy theories…. Kind of. When David wrote this psalm there was a rising conspiracy in the land.

In this video listen to Psalms 63 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In Psalms 63 while in the desert David writes “my soul thirsts for you.” This is a profound psalm about the true reality of thirst and what our true needs are.

In this video listen to Psalms 62 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In Psalms 62 is a song written for Jeduthun - a very talented musician and singer in Israel. This psalm is about what is means to rest… in God. Few people know how to do that.

In this video listen to Psalms 61 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In Psalms 61 we have a song when David is fleeing from an enemy and hiding in the desert. Not everyone has had to hide in the middle of nowhere for their safety. But perhaps you feel alone and isolated and long for things to be normal. This is your psalm.

In this video listen to Psalms 60 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In Psalms 60 despite the ‘kind of’ misleading title, this psalm is about a military defeat. David is attacked by the Edomites while his army is away fighting Aram, and he questions the Lord why this was allowed to happen. Later his army sorts out the Edomites, but this psalm is in between those moments.

In this video listen to Psalms 59 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In Psalms 59 we have another psalm in series of David… in trouble. This time people are all around David’s house watching to kill him. He escapes out a window, suggesting his house was built into the wall of the city. What type of song do you write in this situation?

In this video listen to Psalms 58 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In Psalms 58 is another psalm in a series of songs which have David in the midst of terrible trouble. This time it is set (it seems) in the midst of Absalom’s rage. David goes where he needs to…. To the Lord.

In this video listen to Psalms 57 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In Psalms 57 is a psalm when David is hiding in a cave from Saul. His safety and his refuge is the Lord however…. God is his true ‘cave’.

In this video listen to Psalms 56 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In Psalms 56 we find out that David was seized at one point by the Philistines and he cried out to the Lord to save Him. A psalm of trust in a crazy time of trouble.

In this video listen to Psalms 55 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In Psalms 55 is another psalm about betrayal, but this time seems to be more personal than the previous psalm 54. This is about Ahithophel - David’s trusted friend and a precursor to Christ’s betrayal by Judas

In this video listen to Psalms 55 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In Psalms 55 is another psalm about betrayal, but this time seems to be more personal than the previous psalm 54. This is about Ahithophel - David’s trusted friend and a precursor to Christ’s betrayal by Judas

In this video listen to Psalms 54 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In Psalms 54 we have a psalm about betrayal. The ziphites dobbed in David for a reward after he had been kind to them. If anyone has repaid you evil for good, this paslm is for you.

In this video listen to Psalms 53 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In Psalms 53 we have an almost identical copy of Psalm 14 except for one verse which is different (verse 5) and a most profound change. Everytime God is named in psalm 14 it says “Yahweh” but here every time God is named it says “Elohim.” Such a change is not obvious to our english transitions, but it has impli...

In this video listen to Psalms 52 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. 1In Psalms 52 we have a psalm about the evil man who harms others for personal benefit. The psalm is specifically about Doeg the edomite who killed 80 priest for a personal reward, but about all people who drag others down so they can get ahead.

In this video listen to Psalms 51 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer. In Psalms 51 we have the most famous of the penitential psalms - when David repented for his terrible sin involving Bath-sheba and the coverup with murdered many people. This psalm is a window into how the ancient world worked, and a very unique look at how true repentance should happen. We also briefly conside...