[aron]

I would like to try to sum up my objections to WL's Recovery Version Psalms with two points.

First, he deliberately seems unwilling to see Christ. Inexplicable for a man whose ministry in the OT centered on revealing the typified Christ.

I will give a couple of representative examples. I believe that I could go on for nearly all 150 chapters if I wanted to.

Psalms chapters 15 and 16 - Psalm 15:2 footnote says, "According to vv. 2-5, David's concept was that the man who is perfect according to the law may dwell with God for His heart's desire and good pleasure. Thus, v. 5 says that he who does the good things of the law will not be shaken forever. However, Psalm 16 reveals that only Christ can satisfy God's desire and fulfill His good pleasure."

So why doesn't WL just see Jesus (cf Heb. 2:7) there in Psalm 15? It's like he's wading into the text trying to pick a fight with the author. Did Peter use this approach in Acts 2:24-31, telling the Israelites about David's fallen concepts? No, Peter said that David "...was a prophet" (v. 30) and "saw what was to come" (v. 31) in his coming seed.

If WL generously allows Peter to present us with the Christian approach to Psalm 16, why ignore it in Psalm 15 and elsewhere?

Or look at Psalm 18. The footnote in verse 20 says, "In vv. 20-28 David considered his righteousness, perfection, faithfulness, cleanness, and purity as the cause of God's saving him, and he considered God's salvation a recompense to him. This is a wrong concept."

WL doesn't even mention that David's seed Jesus of Nazareth is the true "righteous one". God made Him who knew no sin to be sin to be sin for us, that we might be the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus (2 Cor 5:21).

Christ earned God's favor by His right standing. He never was shaken (Psa 15:5). Peter didn't waste his time by pointing out David's imperfections, which obviously existed; instead he told the assembled Israelites,

"32 God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of it. 33 Exalted to the right hand of God, he has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear. 34 For David did not ascend to heaven, and yet he said,

“‘The Lord said to my Lord:
“Sit at my right hand
35 until I make your enemies
a footstool for your feet.”’

36 “Therefore let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah.”

Why can't we also see "this Jesus" in the Psalms, as Peter did?