The Voice of Psalms is a great book for people who want to engage with the Psalms and find the Psalm section of their regular Bible a bit bland for what is meant to be a collection of songs of praise to God and yet want something more accurate than The Message. The reflections included help you understand and make this book very useful for daily devotions.
The book includes the many beautiful messages of the Psalms, sort of a standalone book – or to be more accurate interpretation – of the book of Psalms that is the result of collaboration among scholars, pastors, writers, musicians, poets and other artists. The goal here was to help believers experience the joy and wonder of God’s revelation, producing a text that reads more like a great novel than the traditional versions of the Bible.
Despite their claim that they have taken care to be faithful and accurate, there are huge portions of the book that are unrecognizable compared with a traditional translation. By their own admission there are words in the text that are not directly tied to a dynamic translation of the original language (in other words you won’t find them in the original text) and these words are rendered in italic type. There are a lot of italics!
I found the book to have useful reading plans for Lent, and traditional forty day planned worshippers seeking help from the true God, inclusive of commentaries and devotionals. I really liked the translations throughout the work and appreciated the usefulness of the writings.
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