Structured study of scripture, with the underlying data left open to inspection. Close reading and spreadsheets are not opposites.
Open the Psalms dashboardAn interactive analysis of all 150 psalms across the five books of the Psalter.
Each psalm is cataloged by traditional authorship, genre, superscription, voice (individual or communal), imprecatory content, and its citation or allusion in the New Testament — all filterable and sortable.
psalms.valuepost.click →Patterns across a whole book are hard to hold in the head. Laying the corpus out as data makes the shape of the Psalter visible — where lament clusters, how the five books differ, which psalms the New Testament returns to again and again.
The traditional division, each closing with its own doxology.
Psalms 1–41
Overwhelmingly Davidic; dominated by individual lament and personal trust.
Psalms 42–72
The Korahite and Elohistic collection, closing with the prayers of David ended.
Psalms 73–89
Asaph and communal lament; the darkest stretch of the Psalter.
Psalms 90–106
The LORD reigns — enthronement psalms answering Book III's crisis.
Psalms 107–150
Ascents, Hallel, and the closing crescendo of praise.
Read end to end, the arrangement itself argues something: lament is not the last word.
The aim is a study you can argue with. Every classification on these pages is a judgment call made by a person, and judgment calls should be visible rather than buried in a conclusion.