Personal Praise And Prayer In Psalm 116

Psalms 139 speaks to me as a song of praise. God speaks very clearly about how he knows us. He knows our every thought. He cares about our comings and goings. Every word that we speak God knows it before we even speak it. I love the song there will be pain in the night and joy comes in the morning. Says that he is always with us no matter where we are at. His sprit never leaves us. We could go to the depths of the earth, settle in on the far side of the sea, we can hide in the darkest places and he will find us because he cares for us. This psalm is very meaningful to me because it lets me know that my Lord will never leave me or forsake me. He created me I will praise him because “I am fearfully and wonderfully made your works are wonderful

Psalm 137 has a mixture of a soft humming melancholy and fierce patriotism of the Judeans. This Psalm is made for Israel in her captivity. Released us over it, taking its commonplace significance. At the point when an adherent is in captivity he has a troubled recognition of Zion. So it was with God 's aged individuals: "By

The author of Psalm 78 writes with intentions of giving hope to people after the Northern disaster in 721 BCE. He is attempting to get the people to not lose their faith in God. He does this by reminding his readers of three key things, the first being how much both they and their ancestors disobeyed God. This is an attempt by the author to show the people it was only a matter of time before something like this happened. You cannot continue to disobey God and expect him to keep providing for you. The second reminder is about Gods power. Throughout this Psalm the reader is reminded of Gods divine power, and the past miracles that have been bestowed on the Israelites. The third and final reminder comes at the end of the Psalm, where the people are reminded that God handpicked the tribe of Judah, and handpicked David. This reminds the people to never forget they are the chosen people and God handpicked them. All three of these themes combine to produce the authors message-- As long as we trust in God we will be ok, we are the chosen people, and we have the greatest and most powerful God there could be.

The Bible is the Holly Book, composed by many text from different authors. The number of texts in the bible depends to the version. The Bible has two main parts, the ancient and the new testament. The Psalms, which are the object of our research paper, belong to the ancient testament. The Norton Anthology world literature offers us the King James version of the psalms, which played a key role in the literature. For our assignment, we will explore the historical context that lead to the writing of psalm, the information about of the author, themes treated by the psalms and the significance of those psalms in the world’s literature.

Psalms 18 is the Psalm of King David. David provides several lines of imagery and metaphors in the beginning of the Psalm to emphasize the degree in which the Lord has helped him. “The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the most high uttered his voice” (Attridge et al, 2006, Psalm 18:13, p. 746)…He reached down from on high, he took me; he drew me out of mighty waters” (Attridge et al, 2006, Psalm 18:16, p. 747). However, the Psalm has an abrupt shift in subject matter that suggests the psalmist has put the whole thing together from separate sources. It begins with Psalm 18:20, “The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanliness of my hands he recompensed me” (Attridge et al, 2006, Psalm 18:20, p. 747). Every verse before verse 20 was under the theme of thanksgiving. In addition, it had a high dose of metaphor and imagery,

In Psalms, we see a collection of lyrical poetry, songs and prayers. Many of these were written by King David himself. The book covers almost the entire gamut of human emotion, from sorrow to joy, from doubt to faith.

The Song of praise becomes a Psalm of thanks, glorifying God for His compassion and mercy previously displayed to the Psalmist. In this plan v.1b would present an earlier grievance that is mentioned in vs. 2-4, nonetheless answered. Verses 5-6 give a testament of the Lord's kindness, whereas vs. 7-8 function as an encouragement to others to have confidence for the similar restoration protracted to the psalmist. In contrast to such an observation is the point that there is no straight account of the Lord's liberation now the Psalm.

Lament Psalms are the most frequent and are usually a "cry to God from distress, pain or sorrow, either from the individual or community, and often begin the Psalm with Why" (Bratcher, 2013). The Thanksgiving Psalms, articulate gratitude and appreciation through praise to God. A Hymn Psalm is a way to praise the Lord and acknowledge that he is the Creator (Bratcher, 2013). Usually these Psalms are communicated after an act or situation of some kind has occurred that required unwavering faith to God.

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.

Psalm 146 is an important hymn because it is still just as relevant to modern Christians as it was and is for the Jews who offer it as a prayer of thanksgiving to the Lord. The fact that this psalm begins and ends with the word ‘Hallelujah’ is significant because it reminds us Christians that our day should always start and finish with a prayer of praise to God. The reason that we should be grateful to the Lord is because, as Psalm 146 points out, He created the universe and all the wonderful things which it contains, such as ourselves. The gift of life is truly a blessing from God, and it is something that deserves our “life long” praise (v. 2b).

This psalm is a difficult psalm to break down due to differences in structure but also in it’s nature. This psalm is about the creator of the

Psalms is the biggest book of the Old Testament. It is rich with many wonderful teachings along with love and praise for God. The pages are bound with every type of emotion from grief to elated worship. Anyone from any culture, race, or section of society can find common ground with at least one psalm. We can also use the Psalms in many different situations whether that be for a community of people or for ourselves. The book Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Poetry & Writings explains this on page 579, “The psalms have remained a central fixture for corporate worship and private devotion over the centuries. Readers have been enamored by their poetic language, rich imagery and stark honesty.” Moreover, there are many different genres

In the first psalm teach us how it is the way of death and the way of life, blessing and curse, and how it leaves us free to choose. It tells us about the happiness of the good man and the wickedness and evil of the wicked.

Since Psalm 119 is a Psalm of reverence go God and His Word, Scripture is referenced repeatedly. The Psalm is unique and outstanding for its recurring reference to God’s written revelation. Scripture is

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.