Front Matter — Larry Herzog Jr.

The Things Concerning Himself, Volume Two: The Psalms

By Larry Herzog Jr.

Print edition: ISBN 979-8-19-909570-9, first edition, September 2026. This free online edition is published under the Ordinary Means imprint for personal study and congregational use.

Scripture Quotations

Unless otherwise noted, Scripture quotations are from the NET Bible®. Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NET) are from the NET Bible® copyright ©1996, 2019 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. All rights reserved.

Scripture quotations marked ESV are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

The print edition of this volume quotes the ESV throughout. This online edition follows the NET, as the other free studies on this site do. In a small number of places the NET’s rendering loses the very word or image the discussion turns on (for example, Kiss the Son in Psalm 2:12, the things concerning himself in Luke 24:27, which gives the series its name, or the singular man and son of man of Psalm 8 as Hebrews 2 reads it). There the ESV is kept and marked “ESV” after the reference. Where the prose discusses a Hebrew word that the two translations render differently, both renderings are sometimes given.

The divine name follows the usual English convention: LORD in capitals stands for the personal name of God, and Lord for the ordinary word for master.

Liturgical texts (such as the offertory Create in me a clean heart, O God) and hymns are quoted in their familiar liturgical wording, not as Bible translations.

What Is in This Online Edition

This edition contains the Introduction and all thirty-two sessions of the volume.

The Introduction to this volume is a deliberately short summary of the framework set out in full in the Series Introduction to Volume One. If you have not read it, the Genesis study and its introduction, Reading the Old Testament with Lutheran Eyes, are available free on this site.

How to Use This Study

Each session is built around one psalm (sometimes two, or a psalm read with the New Testament passages that quote it). Read the assigned Scripture before you begin, and keep your Bible open as you read. Each session closes with Gathering the Threads, a set of questions For Discussion suited to an adult Sunday school class or small group, a word Looking Ahead to the next session, and a Closing Prayer.

The Lutheran Confessions, where cited, are cited from the Kolb-Wengert edition of The Book of Concord.