Analysis Of Psalms 78 By Psalm 78

It is not often that theologians can agree upon the date of authorship of a text, but Psalm 137 is an exception. It is widely accepted that this psalm was written during or shortly after the exilic waves of the Southern Kingdom during the Babylonian captivity of 597 BCE and 587 BCE , extending to 538 BCE . While no specific author is identified as the author of Psalm 137, it certainly is not King David due to the time elapse from King David’s reign and the Babylonian Captivity. The anguish described in the beginning of the Psalm paired with the vengeful remarks at the end of the Psalm, in addition to the reference to Babylon while the writer’s heart longs for Zion undoubtedly make this Psalm a description of the exile written during or shortly

5). David's trust in God is established from antecedent experiences with God who has redeemed David (v. 8, 22) and who has demonstrated faithfulness (v. 3). The affidavit of trust continues in verses 6-8. After David put himself in God's hands he reminisced that God has not given him into the hands of his enemies (v.8). Verses 9-13 delineate the astute condition of David as he prays. David speaks of how his life is consumed by anguish and tells of his suffering of his whole being that has been going on for a lifetime (v. 9-13). As the passage continues David permutates into declarations of trust, "my times are in your hands" (v. 15) while in verses 16-18 David calls to God asking him to deliver him from his enemies once again. The psalms conclude on various admirable annotations of praise and trust (v. 19-24).

Psalm 18 is the third longest of all the psalms and is one of the few to contain an extensive heading. This psalm also has a parallel text found in 2 Samuel 22 providing further information and highlighting its importance to the Israelite people. The text speaks of David’s military victories but the emphasis is not on himself but on the victory that was won through God’s power and might. God is shown to be a saving God, something present day Christians cling to daily.

I sing of mercy and justice: to you, LORD, I sing praise. I study the way of integrity; when will you come to me? I act with integrity of heart within my royal court. I do not allow into my presence anyone who speaks perversely. Whoever acts shamefully I hate; no such person can be my friend. I shun the devious of heart; the wicked I do not tolerate. Whoever slanders another in secret I reduce to silence. Haughty eyes and arrogant hearts I cannot endure. I look to the faithful of the land; they alone can be my companions. Those who follow the way of integrity, they alone can enter my service. No one who practices deceit can hold a Post in my court. No one who speaks falsely can be among my advisors. Each morning I clear the wicked from the land, and rid the LORD’s city of all evildoers (The New American Bible, Psalm 101.1-8). An important allusion in O Pioneers is the one made to the 101st Psalm. The 101st Psalm is alluded to when Ivar repeats the verse in part five, chapter one. In the verse, David gives his guidelines for living life. This scripture was of the utmost importance in olden times, as many people memorized it and implemented David’s guidelines in their own lives. This scripture expanded on the novel’s theme of Christianity and drew my interest because I have similar views as some of the characters.

"Psalm 23" comes from the Christian Bible. It is one of the most famous of these Biblical psalms. The beginning of the poem reads, "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want" (line 1). In the poem, the first-person narrator asserts that as long as they believe in God, then they will never be in need. Further, the poem reads, "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me" (line 4). This narrator believes completely that no matter what negative issues they may have to deal with in their life, they will be fine because of their faith. The Bible is the written history of the Christian religion and its purpose is both to inspire and instruct people of that faith. The Psalm's purpose is to underscore the potency of the power of belief in Christianity.

These people also had a sense of hope and faith that God would reign rooted deep in the midst of their community. Through the finding of the Dead Sea Scrolls researchers found several different writings that were adapted from Psalms attracting “the attention of God” (pp. 105). Many of these writings are adapted from Psalms 24 or 68, for example. The thought at the forefront of their minds was that God was victorious (pp. 106).

Genre: The genre of Psalm 139 is Hebrew poetry, simply because the psalms were written in Hebrew and are a collection of poems and laments. The first principle of interoperation is that the psalms blend experience, emotion, and theology. This should be taken into account while reading the poem in order that the reader does not simply skip over the theology by only focusing on experience and emotion. The second interoperation principle is that each psalm should be read as a whole. Verses of psalms should not be taken out of context, in doing this the reader may distort the meaning of the psalm. Another interpretation principle to take into consideration is the different genres of psalms such as: laments, thanksgiving, hymns of praise, wisdom, and songs of trust. With that being said, Psalm 139 not only falls under the Hebrew poetry genre, but is also classified as a psalm of trust. Lastly, the fourth interpretation principle is that parallelisms are used. In other words, ideas correlate in many different ways such as: synonymously, antithesis, intensifying, specifying, and synthetically.

When Hannah warns “Boast no more so very proudly,” (NASB) she offers her begins her criticism of those who oppose God, such as actions of Peninnah (and others in the narratives of 1, 2 Samuel—Eli’s sons, the Philistines, Saul, Nabal, Goliath, Absalom, Shimei and Sheba) . Thus, the passage incorporates aspects of Deuteronomic History and Theology as God reverses fate of those who disobey the covenant and live without obedience. Likewise, it also demonstrates the surprising reversals God often uses to display his sovereignty, for example, in God the barren become fertile, the poor become rich, and the mighty are made weak. Consequently, Hannah exalts that God is sovereign over all aspects of life, a theme occurring repeatedly throughout the old Testament. While human desire is fickle and fleeting, the will of God is lasting and all powerful. For it is God who puts the unworthy in positions of power to shame the elites throughout the Bible, such as mentioned in 1 Corinthians 1:27. Specifically, verse 8 reflects figures such as David, as God raises him from lowly shepherd to king of Israel. God does this on the authority of his creation, in verse 8 one is reminded that God set the pillars of the earth. The passage then begins to conclude with similar themes to opening lines, such as God’s strength as he judges humanity. Likewise, the strength he provides to his

David isn’t clear about what he is writing about, but he was clearly moved by the event. We see this in the first two lines where David felt he had to repeat himself by saying “if it had not been the Lord who was on our side”. It’s as if he can’t bare to think of what might have become of them. Some feel he wrote it when he was fighting the Philistines. The Philistines were a powerful people but David overcame them and he attributes his victory to God protecting and helping them win. He clearly feels they escaped certain death. David’s use of such strong words like raging, engulfed and torrent shows how afraid he was. God brought them through this great danger and they owe it all to God. Without the lord on the side of Israel. They would have been destroyed by the danger they faced He compares himself to a bird in a cage and how fragile and helpless we are against danger and evil. David is more than grateful and willing to give God the glory and not himself. Life is full of challenges and dangers. Many of these challenges are so great that God and God alone can get us through. All praise of safety should be given to

The Psalm states how it’s going to rebuild, what this means is that everything wrong that has happen there will be a good in. That everything will be peaceful, that thing will soon find its way back. Also it means to wait and see what will happen next. In the book,” It tells how over the year the war

The metaphor of the vine, which appears in many of the other readings from this Sunday, is very important. The vine in this reading is the Israelites, as it is states. “The vineyard of the Lord is the house of Israel.” (Psalm 80). The Israelites were God’s first chosen people. In this Psalm, the Israelites are asking God to protect them and they put all of their faith and trust into our Lord. “Once again, O LORD of hosts, look down from heaven, and see; take care of this vine, and protect what your right hand has planted the son of man whom you yourself made strong” (Psalm 80:15-16). They asked God to look down from His throne and ask from protection, and trusted that He would provide

The Book of Psalms is the Book of Prayer. Whoever wants to learn to pray let him pray to David and whoever prays with the psalms, David shall be a teacher for him, how he should pray as a father that shall hold his son's hand to teach him how to write. In the Book of Psalms we know ourselves and the weaknesses and pitfalls that are in us and we find in this travel fall and the advancement of prayers of repentance and thanksgiving and praise. Psalms are filled with many prophecies concerning the incarnation, pain and resurrection of the Lord. It is the greatest witness to the life of the Lord Jesus, so Peter said that David is a prophet (Acts 30: 2).

Verse three outlines the start of the forming of David's band of miscreants; "Also joining him was every person who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented gathered to him. He became captain over them. And there were about four hundred men with him" (NKJV). David is now the leader of an unstructured group of men discontented with the current political situation. They had been wronged and mistreated, were under a curse of debt that they could not pay. They were not trained loyal soldiers, but like David, are so distressed that they have no option left except to run and hide from their problems (Swindoll, 1997, p.74; Epp, 1965, p.56). Psalm 57 indicates that not only were they hiding, but they were angry and wanting vengeance on those they felt had wronged them�. Keller (1985, pp. 120,121) suggests that it was in living with these oppressed outcasts that David developed his compassion for those living under oppression.

The last segment of the Psalm is Moses’ appeal to God for him to return his presence to his people: “Return, O LORD, how long? And let it repent thee concerning thy servants.” Not only should God return, but Moses asks for complete restoration and for God to bless the work of man: “Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

In the Old Testament, Heman the Ezrahite, the son of Joel and the grandson of Samuel the judge and prophet of Israel, wrote Psalm 88. This Psalm is a very unique one in that it is the only one that does not end with an assertion of comfort or joy. It is very sad and melancholy and you can tell that it was written by someone in a very depressive state: