Psalm 113

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The 113th Psalm (according to Greek counting the 112th) is a psalm from the Old Testament book of Psalms in the Bible . It belongs to the series of hymns of the community.

structure

The Old Testament scholar Hermann Gunkel subdivides the psalm in his standard work The Psalms as follows:

  1. Verses 1–4: Introduction: Name those who are to sing the hymn as " YHWH's servants" (the Israelites)
  2. Verses 5-9: Determine the attributes of YHWH as "looking down" and "gracious"

The "low ones"

The psalm speaks of once "lowly" who have been exalted. There are very different interpretative approaches in psalm research:

  1. as Maccabean heroes
  2. than those who returned from exile in Babylon
  3. than the church itself

Dating

The psalm can be dated to the later period of psalm poetry.

Settings

Psalm 113 ( Vulgate 112 Laudate, pueri, Dominum ) belongs to the classic series of Sunday Vesper psalms and thus one of the most frequently set biblical texts. He is u. a. Part of Monteverdi 's Vesper of Mary and Mozart's Vesperae solennes de Confessore . Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy composed a version for three female voices and organ. Anton Bruckner composed a version for double choir and orchestra (Psalm 112, WAB 35: Alleluja! Praise the Lord, you servants ). Further settings are by Giovanni Battista Bononcini , Georg Friedrich Händel ( Laudate Pueri Dominum ), Nicola Porpora and Colin Mawby (2011).

Web links

Commons : Psalm 113  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hermann Gunkel, Die Psalmen ( 6 1986), 491
  2. ↑ Ferdinand Hitzig, The Psalms historically and critically examined (1865)
  3. ↑ Justus Olshausen, The Psalms (1853)
  4. ^ Julius Wellhausen, Book of Psalms (1898)
  5. ^ Heinrich Graetz, Critical Commentary on the Psalms (1883) and others
  6. ^ Henrich Ewald, poet of the old covenant (1866) and others
  7. ↑ Nicola Porpora - Laudate pueri . Youtube video, accessed February 13, 2020