Eight Perfect Psalms

By Wale Owoeye

EIGHT PERFECT PSALMS is the third installment in the Perfect Psalms Series featuring a scholarly critique of eight sacred texts of the Psalms.The exploratory book, made for people of all faiths, is ideal for prayers, meditations and for setting matters in motion.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Oyster Press
• Release date: May 30, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223586821

Wale Owoeye

Wale Sasamura-Owoeye is a lawyer, poet, author, mystic, publisher, teacher and Renaissance Man. A Neo-Negritudian with the mission to make modern literary masterpieces for world audience, Wale Sasamura lives and practices law in Lagos, Nigeria

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To Eunice- who was born on the 8th day of May

FOREWORD

EIGHT PERFECT PSALMS is the third book in my perfect psalm series, inspired by the Holy Spirit to shed new light on extant David's compositions. Written in the style of its counterparts in the series, the book features commentaries and expositions on eight serial psalms from the Book of Psalms ending with 8. A poetic critique featured with prayer regimen, the book is a distillation of my meditations and contemplations on the selected passages of psalms.

David, a king of old, was a sage poet who knew God intimately. In his compositions we could feel the depth of his passion for the Divine. The psalms, mostly written by him, are poems of devotion and invocation; filled with knowledge not ordinarily discerned and worship that moves the heavens. It is why the book is loved and studied by people of all faiths; a universal codex of songs.

Like I have always maintained, EIGHT PERFECT PSALMS ideally should be read with an open spirit attuned to God. To find the same delight and peace I found sharing them with the Holy Spirit, the reader must study the passages like poetry; unveiling meanings hidden behind its lyric metaphors and rhythmic tropes. At the end I am assured of open heavens for those graced to share in these divine meditations of the man after God's heart.

God bless you as you read.

Wale Owoeye Esq., Lagos

But his delight in is the law of the LORD; and in his law does he meditate day and night.

Psalm 1: 2

TABLE OF CONTENTS

FOREWORD

PSALM 18 PRAYER FOR DIVINE VICTORY

PSALM 28 PRAYER FOR DIVINE COMMUNICATION

PSALM 38 PRAYER FOR REPENTANCE

PSALM 48 SONG OF ADORATION

PSALM 58 PRAYER FOR DIVINE JUSTICE

PSALM 68 SONG OF PRAISE

PSALM 78 SONG OF OBEDIENCE

PSALM 88 DIRGE FOR SALVATION

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PSALM 18

PRAYER FOR DIVINE VICTORY

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PSALM 18, ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL PASSAGES IN THE SCRIPTURE, is an

invocation of David made to summon the presence of God into his life at a particular period. A historical testimonial, it is a song of victory David sang to praise God for his deliverance from Saul, his arch enemy; which he left for us believers to sing when in travails so that the Spirit of God can descend to save us promptly.

David began the psalm with an affirmation of trust and faith in the omniscience of God. He

sang:

1I will love you, O LORD, my strength

2 The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my GOD, my strength, in whom I  trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

See how David adulated God for His power. A poetic sage, his choice of words is made to express the security inherent in the divine; impenetrable, unmovable and sure protection found nowhere else. Any believer who regards God in this high esteem, who trusts not in his or her own strength but in the might of the divine is assured of one thing which David stated in the next verse of the psalm.

He declared:

3 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so