Psalm 75

The 75th Psalm (according to Greek counting the 74th) is a Psalm of David and belongs to the genre "prophetic liturgy".

structure

One possible structure of the psalm is as follows:

1. Verse 2: Hymn of the church calling on God's name
2. Verse 3f: God's own voice
3. Verses 5–11: New beginning hymn by a single singer
   1. Verse 5f: Exhortation to YHWH's enemies
   2. Verse 7f: Exult over God's rule
   3. Verse 9: Positioning God's wrath cup in front of the enemy
   4. Verse 10f: Usual ending of a hymn

interpretation

The Old Testament scholar Hermann Gunkel sees the key message of the Psalm that the congregation hopes that YHWH will intervene despite the turmoil in the world.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hermann Gunkel, Die Psalmen ( ⁶ 1986), 327
2. ^ Hermann Gunkel, Die Psalmen ( ⁶ 1986), 328

Web links

Commons : Psalm 75  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Psalm 75 in the standard translation , the Luther Bible and other translations from bibleserver.com
• Psalm 75 in the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) on bibelwissenschaft.de
• Sheet music in the public domain of settings for Psalm 75 in the Choral Public Domain Library - ChoralWiki (English)