Best Commentaries on Psalms

CT Pastors December 1, 2025

Note: Our list of recommendations is just getting started. We’ll be adding more in the coming months.

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Melinda Cousins is Director of Ministries for Baptist Churches SA. Previously, she oversaw the training and accreditation of pastors as well as teaching biblical studies at Tabor Adelaide. She completed her PhD on the Psalms in 2016, looking at ideas of performance, emotion, imagination, and embodiment.

Introductions:

How to Read the Psalms (How to Read Series)

Tremper Longman III (Author)

IVP Academic

192 pages

$19.38

Commentaries:

The Book of Psalms Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Robert Alter (Author)

0 pages

$94.82

Psalms (5) (The Expositor's Bible Commentary)

Zondervan (Author), Tremper Longman III (Editor), David E. Garland (Editor), Willem A. VanGemeren (Contributor)

Zondervan

1024 pages

$61.91

Psalms (New Cambridge Bible Commentary)

Walter Brueggemann (Author), William H. Bellinger Jr (Author)

Cambridge University Press

660 pages

$37.59