Psalm 49

This week’s Biblical Passage Psalm 8, 1-9, is talking about the nature of God and his relationship with the world. Anyone is able to look around to see all of God’s glory because of all his handiwork, his work can be seen when one looks up to the heavens, moon, stars, mountains, oceans, plants and all of the animals that he has created. God rules over the universe. He created big things but he also cares about the little things too. Man tends to look at other things such as wealth, position or intellect; however, God’s ways are not our ways.

16 Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

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.

Children are a beautiful thing, they are a marvelous gift of God to us. A beautiful sign of His

In Psalms 34:17-20 it says “When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all. He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken.” I believe this is a great symbolic allegory of the darkness that slavery birthed into our world. Each of these were bonded together in hopeless but in each case and region had different difficulties that had to face. Each using their life story to be a beacon of hope to others that freedom was within reach

Psalm 46:5 reads "God is within her, she will not fall."   My whole life I was taught the ways of Christ and living a daily life by following and sharing his word. My parents always taught me to put others before myself. My heart is so full and kind and I wish to see everyone around me happy and full of smiles.

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.

Psalms 37:5 Commit everything you do to the LORD, Trust him, and he will help you.

From the beginning the revelation of God was an accumulation of people’s/man’s expectations of what and who they wanted God to be. “By some, God was expected to work by redirecting the stream of earthly events, mis-lug up as a Messiah a second David who should restore the lost glories of Israel’s golden age. By others the coming of the Messiah was looked for as the appearance of a supernatural celestial being who should not redirect, but put an end, to history; and some held that this would be done by the direct action of God Himself, acting as his own Messiah”( Streitferdt para.1). I agree with the idea that God, who was manifested into a fleshly being, Jesus, did pre-exist before his birth at Bethlehem. In Psalm 110 David says this, “The Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool” (KJV Bible). Here David had a revelation about the Mesiah. The Lord (present), indicating to David that there would be a Mesiah (future).

Thank you for sharing your opinion, “In my opinion, self-interest is the ability to fully become the person God created us to become. Psalms 139:13-18 illustrates the importance of self-interest. According to verse 13, we are all created with certain skills, abilities and traits.” I like to add some of my insights about Psalm 139:13-18. I personally believe that we are a person of destiny. God chose us to be here before the foundation of the world God knew us before we were ever formed in our mother’s womb. He actually knitted us together in our mother’s womb. God made us with a unique purpose, and we are a vital part of His divine plan.

In Psalm 103, God is portrayed as forgiving, strict, paternal, and anthropomorphic. In verse three it states that God “forgives all your iniquity,” conveying that a person's sinful behavior can be forgiven by God. However, while God appears very forgiving and merciful, he is also very strict. This strictness is depicted when he explains that he will only care for those who “keep his covenant and remember to do his commandments” (18), for he creates guidelines and rules which his followers must obey. God is also portrayed as paternal, for humans are described as his “children” (Verse 13) illustrating God as a father figure to humankind.

Verse 1: "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth His handywork."

The first nineteen verses of Psalm chapter forty-four focus on the different seasons of the favor of God. This Psalm Begins with praise to God for what He has already done in the generations of the writers’ fathers saying that even though they were the ones who fought the battle, He is the one that gave them the favor to succeed. The writer continues to glorify God up to a certain point where it all seems to drastically change. At this point, the writer states that God has rejected and humbled “us” referring to his generation of people and armies. The writer states how they now retreat from their enemies and get “devoured like sheep”; they even say that it feels like they did nothing wrong.

There are several challenges with the historical background and political setting of Isaiah 40-66 concerning author, date, time and situation of life for the Jews. LaSor notes that traditional views that Isaiah authored the entire book are held by very few scholars. More and more critics are accepting a two book theory with chapters 1-39 as book one and chapters 40-66 as book two. Moreover, there are further refinements resulting in three books, dividing chapters 40-66 into 40-55 (Deutero-Isaiah) and 56-66 (Trito-Isaiah). (LaSor, William 1996., 281)

As the longest chapter in the Bible, Psalm 119 is a Psalm of delighting in the Word of God. Psalm 119 is comprised of 176 verses that give adoration to God and the Torah.