About AllPsalms
One site for all 150 psalms: the full text, what each one means, and which psalm to read when.
Why this site exists
I built AllPsalms because I could not find one site that covered all 150 psalms properly. Some sites list a few psalms for a few situations. Others print the text with little help to understand it. I wanted every psalm in one place, explained in plain English, with the text left exactly as it is.
I am a Christian and a reader of the psalms, not a scholar or a minister. What I can do is the work: collect the text carefully, write plainly about what each psalm says, and show where every claim comes from.
How the pages are made
The psalm text is printed from public domain translations and is never edited. The summaries, verse notes, prayers and study questions are written for this site from the words of each psalm. Claims that go beyond the text, such as church use or history, are only made with a source, and the source is listed on the page. Where a source could not be checked, the claim was left out.
Attribution follows the headings printed in the psalms themselves. A heading that names David is reported as naming David; it is not treated as proof of who wrote it.
What you will not find here
No accounts or sign ups. No modern copyrighted translations such as the NIV, ESV or NKJV, which cannot be printed in full; each psalm page links to where you can read them. No promises that a psalm will bring money, healing or protection. The psalms are prayers and songs, and this site presents them that way.
Credits and sources
- World English Bible, King James Version, Westminster Leningrad Codex (Hebrew), Douay-Rheims 1899 and Clementine Vulgate: all public domain, from ebible.org.
- Topics and cross references: openbible.info, licensed CC BY 4.0.
- Topical Bible data from Nave's and Torrey's topical Bibles, public domain.
- Church lists and other sourced claims are cited on the page where they appear.