In every generation, the book of Psalms has inspired artists and musicians, and comforted and thrilled ordinary readers. These ancient poems seem to be timeless - with amazing insight and accuracy they express the wide range of human emotions often experienced in secret, of hurts and baffling doubts, of deep joys and soaring hope.This publication combines the talents of two artists, from different continents and cultural contexts, who express their personal encounter with the words of the Psalms. Using vibrant acrylics on Plexiglas, the Dutch artist Anneke Kaai applies paintbrush and collage techniques to give ?body? to her experience of the Psalms; the verses that inspired her paintings appear alongside, taken from The Message by Eugene H. Peterson. Peterson's paraphrase is a moving expression of the cutting reality of the ancient Hebrew poetry.