Psalm 116
The 116th psalm is a biblical psalm from the fifth book of the psalter .
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In Psalm 116 the psalmist thanks God in front of the congregation for salvation from a life-threatening emergency. He made a vow to the Lord , which he is now fulfilling. Apparently, this vow concerns the described thank offering itself.
Division in the Septuagint
According to the Greek count, which is used by the Vulgate in addition to the Septuagint , the psalm is divided into two individual psalms. According to Greek counting, verses 1-9 form the 114th Psalm and verses 10-19 the 115th Psalm.
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New Testament
The 10th verse is quoted by Paul in 2 Corinthians (4.13 EU ).
Church music
The psalm is part of the vespers of the office of the dead .
The hymn I love you to hear me by Heinrich Vogel from 1948 is based on Psalm 116.
Verse 7 was included in the composition Be now satisfied again, my soul by Andreas Hammerschmidt (1639) as well as in choir 9 of the church cantata I had a lot of concern (BWV 21) by Johann Sebastian Bach (1714).
In 1623, the Saxon court official Burkhard Großmann, who had suffered a misfortune in 1616 and which he had miraculously survived unscathed, published 16 settings of the 116 psalm under the title "Fear of the Hellenistic and Peace of Souls" Commissioned by composers ( Michael Altenburg , Christoph Demantius , Nicolaus Erich, Andreas Finold, Melchior Franck , Abraham Gensreff, Johann Groh , Johann Krause, Christian Michael, Daniel Michael, Rogier Michael , Tobias Michael , Michael Praetorius , Johann Hermann Schein , Heinrich Schütz , Caspar Trost).
An important romantic setting of the 116th Psalm comes from Heinrich von Herzogenberg , the a cappella motet "That's me dear" op. 34.
Web links
- Psalm 116 in the standard translation , the Luther Bible and other translations from bibleserver.com
- Psalm 116 in the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) on bibelwissenschaft.de
- Public domain sheet music of settings for Psalm 116 in the Choral Public Domain Library - ChoralWiki (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stuttgart Explanatory Bible. 2nd Edition. German Bible Society , Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-438-01121-2 , p. 754
- ↑ Evangelisches Gesangbuch - Edition for the Evangelical Lutheran Churches in Bavaria and Thuringia, Munich, ISBN 3-583-12000-0 , p. 545
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