Psalms 117 Psalm 117

There are 150 psalms in the Book of Psalms that were written over the span of 800 years. Most of the Psalms written were made to be sung. There are two main genres of Psalms, which are laments and hymns. David is know to have written 73 psalms, Asaph wrote 12, the sons of Korah wrote 11, Solomon wrote 2, Moses wrote 1 and 50 are anonymous . Although 50 were anonymous, David was certainly the author of the majority of the Psalms.

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

This paper provides a summary and an assessment of the approach for determining the relationship of a psalm to Jesus the Messiah proposed by Richard P. Belcher Jr. in his book The Messiah and the Psalms: Preaching Christ from all the Psalms . This paper also provides an analysis of Psalm 45 and whether Psalm 45 should be used to teach on the church as the bride of Christ. Lastly, this paper provides an analysis of Psalm 22 and whether Psalm 22 speaks of the Messiah.

Bellinger, W. H. Psalms:Reading and Studying the Book of Praises. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., 1990.

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.

This psalm was written by David when he was in a distressful state, being chased by Saul who

Adoration is the process of praising God for what he is. This is seen throughout the Psalms in a category known as the Descriptive Praise Psalms, such as Psalm 117. Descriptive Praise Psalms can be broken up into three distinct parts: a call to praise, the cause for praise, and a conclusion. These parts can clearly be discerned within Psalm 117. The call to praise, “Praise the Lord, all nations! Extol him, all peoples!,” the cause for praise, “For great is his steadfast love toward us, and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever,” and the conclusion, “Praise the Lord” (Psalm 117 ESV). In the same way, the adoration section of our prayers should be structure in a similar manner. The next letter, C, stands for confession. The Penitential Psalms, such as Psalms 51, are the guides to this area of our prayer life. In the Penitential Psalms, the psalmist takes time to examine their thoughts, words, and deeds and the motives and desires that drive them. The psalmist then calls on the Lord for mercy, confessing the specific ways in which they have sinned. Thanksgiving is the T in ACTS. The outline for prayers of thanksgiving can be found in the Declarative Praise Psalm. These psalms, like the Descriptive Praise Psalms, can be divided into three categories: the call for praise, a report of deliverance, and the act of praise. This can be seen in Psalm 30. In verses 1-3, the psalmist provides the report of deliverance proclaiming, “O Lord my

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.

Next, with the capacity to divaricate into three distinct thought components, Psalm 24 actually has congruence, as it covers a sequential range of actions which include declaration, preparation and finally praise. It is also considered to be a liturgical psalm due to the manner of wording and conveyance of access requirements with regard to being fit to enter the temple for worship unto God (Varughese, n.d., p. 7). One course of thought among scholars and commentators for this psalm, is that it likely embodies the time when the David “brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom into the city of David with gladness” (2 Samuel 6:12, New American Standard Bible; Kidner, 2014, p. 130). This occurred during the time when the Lord had given

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

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).

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.

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: