Psalm 111

Latin Vesper Psalms; Below left is Psalm 111, which according to the Vulgate count bears the number 110

The 111th psalm is a biblical psalm from the fifth book of the psalter . It can be characterized as a praise psalm, but also has features of a wisdom psalm.

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The psalm is a hymn of praise by which the congregation praises the works of God that he has done in the history of his people (verses 5, 6 and 9 are to be understood accordingly in the past tense). The “foundation of a memory” in verse 4 should refer to the festivals instituted by God, such as Passover . Verse 5 alludes to the feeding in the desert when leaving Egypt . Verse 6 refers to the settlement in the promised land . Verses 7 and 8 recall the law given by the Lord . Verse 9 is likely to be about both deliverance from Egypt and God's later intervention to save His people. Verse 10 closes the psalm with a kind of wisdom .

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The individual lines of verse in the original text follow the Hebrew alphabet (so-called acrostic ). Similar forms of poetry can be found in a number of other Psalms (e.g. Psalm 9 and 10 , 25 , 34 , 37 , 112 , 119 and 145 ) or in sections from other books of the Bible ( Proverbs 31: 10–31  Lu or den first four chapters of Jeremiah's Lamentations ).

reception

Psalm 111 in Mozart's Vesperae solennes de Dominica

The Vesperae solennes de Dominica ( KV 321) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart from 1779 is set to music, including Psalm 111.

Web links

Commons : Psalm 111  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Psalm 111 in the standard translation , the Luther Bible and other translations from bibleserver.com
• Psalm 111 in the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) on bibelwissenschaft.de
• Sheet music in the public domain of settings for Psalm 111 in the Choral Public Domain Library - ChoralWiki (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Stuttgart Explanatory Bible. 2nd Edition. German Bible Society , Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-438-01121-2 , pp. 751f