Psalms

Dickinson’s ‘The Soul selects her own Society,’ and Robert Frost’s ‘The Road Not Taken’ grant these opportunities to those who read. The Book of the Psalms in the Old Testament of the Bible, are filled with many poems and written songs granting the reader the same opportunities to experience deep emotion, use their imagination and face the reality of life. Psalm 23, written by King David, takes its reader to a field where a shepherd watches lovingly over his sheep. Through careful analysis by…

One of the case studies in Ancient Israel comes from Psalms 88.In the anthropology of the dead, the nephesh is inviolable and makes the journey to Sheol (Psalms 30:3). The beginning of Psalms 88 is of a man praying to God about his afterlife, because he knows his death is coming in the near future. He prays for “salvation” and the man nephesh is still currently on earth but he is aware that he will be going to “the pit” when he dies (Psalms 88:1-4). He feels that God has forsaken him and accuses…

How did David express his sorrow after sleeping with another man's wife? David is the man after the heart of God. He became king, and God even made a covenant with him. Even though all these things happened he fell into sin, so how did he repent? Psalm 51 is written when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had slept with Bathsheba. This is a passage was to ask for the forgiveness, and mercy of God for what he has done to God, Bathsheba and Uriah the hittite. Uriah the hittite was one of the…

When reading Luther’s lectures on the Psalms, it is apparent that in many ways Luther connects himself to tradition through the way in which he reads and interprets scripture. Luther does this mainly through his Christological reading of the Psalms, which he maintains throughout, as well as his appropriation of the four-fold sense of the text. When one surveys the Patristic Church Fathers up to the Middle ages one readily observes an exegetical process that extrapolated multiple layers of…

Psalms 111 is a psalm of praise. We are to praise him all day long as well as at home in our secret place. We are not to just praise him in the sanctuary in front of others for all to see, God asks our praise to be the same whether we are in private or in public. Psalms 111 is a praise that is not bashful in exultation. Verse 1-5 speaks of the word Hallelujah; Hallelujah tells us whatever we call others to do, we must be willing to do ourselves if we are asking them to praise God in our own…

The book, Psalms of Faith by Ray C. Stedman is about one man’s interpretation of the book of Psalms and how one can gain insight into daily living from the book itself. The themes of each chapter come from certain Psalms, such as, A Song of Foundations, which covers Psalm one, or How to Handle a Bad Conscience, which is on Psalm 51. Each one of the Psalms has its own unique meaning and personal application on how one should apply themselves in certain situations. The book of Psalms itself was…

The biggest book in the Bible is the book of Psalms in the Old Testament. Psalms is filled with songs and poems with subjects ranging from worship to suffering and, like the majority of Old Testament books, include prophesies of the coming Messiah. While God had continuously spoke to the prophets about they’re coming savior, He never spoke of the specifics of what He would be like. Expectedly, this lead people to develop their own ideas and develop expectations as to what the Messiah will do and…

paper will discuss the interpretation of Psalm two. It will concentrate on the literary structure and the central message of Psalm two. The big picture that the author wants to visualize through Psalm two is about the coming of the Messianic rule of Jesus Christ as the King. This Psalm gives the reader theological positions that focus on Jesus Christ (Christocentric) that come to rule heaven and earth as the undisputed sovereign King. The primary theme of Psalm two is about blessed are those who…

Biblical Psalm 63 is a psalm of David, when he was in the desert of Judah to escape from Saul. When David encountered resistance and lost battle to his enemy. He prayed to god, asking god to help him. David believe that the Lord will help him to win. At the same time, it also shows that god is with all of us. Only by god, we can prevail in the world. All the words in the psalm are about the joy, appreciation and gratefulness to the God. There are mainly three sections of this psalm. The first…

What is the Twenty-Third Psalm really saying? The Twenty-Third Psalm is probably the most well-known Psalm in the Bible. Although there are many translations of the 23rd Psalm, the original version was published in the King James Version of the Bible. It was first published in Hebrew. This is unique because the psalm starts out talking in third-person, the Psalmist is talking about the Lord. Then the psalmist switches to first-person as if he is talking directly to God. He uses metaphors to…