Surprised by Hesed is a book by Mark Feezell released to the public domain in early November 2024. If you are hurting, know someone who is, or just want to learn more about the love of God, this book is for you.
The book and everything on this page is public domain (including the recordings), so please copy and share widely! If you are fluent in a language other than English, see our Surprised by Hesed for Translators page.
Quick links:
Print book on Amazon:
Surprised by Hesed print book on Amazon
There are no author royalties on the print book, just Amazon’s cost of printing.
Ebooks:
Free Epub download link – Downloads as ZIP. Download to a computer, change the file extension to .epub, then you can import it into any ebook reader. My web host will not allow direct epub downloads. Once you have the epub, you can email it to yourself, then long click the email attachment on your phone and “Share” it into your phone’s ebook reader.
Amazon Kindle link Kindle requires a minimum price of $0.99, of which I will be paid $0.35. I offer this as a convenience, or you can download the totally free epub above (and import it into your ebook reader) instead. Kindle book preview
PDF version:
Audiobook and Music Playlists:
For mp3s, streaming links, and music playlists for the audiobook version, visit the Surprised by Hesed Audiobook page: Surprised by Hesed Audiobook
YouTube Playlist:
For a YouTube playlist of songs from these Psalms about God’s love, click this link: YouTube playlist
You can also go to https://www.youtube.com/@DrFeezellcom and click “Playlists.”
Errors and corrections:
In the FAQs section (under “Why did you use the Berean Standard Bible, and why did you write the psalms in paragraphs, not as poems?” on page 84), I made an incorrect statement in the second paragraph. I stated, “The line breaks are a great tool for studying the parallelism and technical features of the Hebrew poetry, but they are not in the original manuscripts.” This is not entirely correct.
To clarify: there are, in fact, many ancient manuscripts that do include the line breaks / couplet groupings. However, there are also a number of ancient manuscripts that do not and that actually write the Psalms as prose, very similar to what I did.
In any case, it is true that there are many Hebrew editions of Psalms (though not all), both ancient and modern, that omit the breaks and couplet markings in Psalms. We benefit from experiencing Psalms in as many different ways as possible, both to soak in the broad scope of each psalm as a complete literary unit and to analyze and explore the beauty of the individual structures that make it up.
If you’re interested in learning more about the manuscripts (in particular conservative manuscripts and facilitating manuscripts), this video is a great introduction:
Amazon Kindle Preview:
Kindle requires a minimum price of $0.99, of which I will be paid $0.35. I offer this as a convenience, but you can download the totally free epub above under “Quick Downloads” instead.
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