Psalm 32 is most akin to the thanksgiving psalms of the individual (cf. Pss. 30; 116), but it forms a combination of features unlike any other psalm. Most notably, it incorporates a confession of sin (surprisingly rare among the psalms) and a divine oracle, along with an overall didactic (i.e., teaching) emphasis. Its liturgical setting is implied by its closing, plural imperative call to praise addressed to the righteous, and by its changes of address. It opens with a “blessing” that refers to the Lord (vv. 1–2; cf. Ps. 41, a psalm of sickness) and moves to thanksgiving addressed to him (“your hand,” etc., vv. 3–7). Then, without introduction, Yahweh himself speaks (“I will”). While the absence of a transition is awkward when the psalm is read as literature, it would not have been so when…