Over the course of the past thirty years, the paradigm for the study of the psalms has changed: there has been a move from the study of the individual compositions considered in isolation to the study of the Psalter as a book. This new perspective (called “holistic” or “canonical”) should not be limited to university lecture halls but can find a home in the practice of prayer, in particular in the Liturgia horarum. The proposal is to pray the psalms in their order, thus reproducing the ebb and flow of the Psalter: from lament to praise, from supplication to thanksgiving, from the kingship of David to that of God. We also propose to rediscover the three characteristics of the psalms: poetry, prayer and song. By using the voice, song brings the body into prayer; it highlights not only the character of the human response to the call of God but also the anthropological participation in the salvific event. The poetic word – prayed and sung – becomes a sharer in the prerogative of the divine Word. Finally, we examine some contiguous psalms: Pss 120‑124; Pss 111‑112 and Ps 150 which closes the Psalter.