Psalm 118

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Inscription with Psalm 118.7 on a house in Osnabrück
Psalm 118.17 on the pedestal of the Erfurt Luther memorial

The 118th psalm is a biblical psalm from the fifth book of the psalter .

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The psalm expresses a grateful commitment to help God. In different places it can be seen that it represents an alternating song. It was probably sung when the congregation entered the temple . A clear assignment of the individual parts to individual persons or groups is no longer possible today. Verse 22f ("The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone") plays a major role in the entire Bible and is related to Jesus the Messiah (Jesus Christ) in the New Testament (for example in Isaiah 28:16, Mt  21.42  LUT , Ac  4.11  LUT or 1. Petr  2.7  LUT ).

reception

Martin Luther held Psalm 118 in high esteem, and in 1530 he dedicated the book The Beautiful Confitemini to it .

Church music

In the cantata Tritt auf die Glaubensbahn (BWV 152), first performed in 1714 , Johann Sebastian Bach processed the image of the corner stone taken by the poet Salomon Franck .

The hymn Nun say thanks and praise the Lord by Ambrosius Lobwasser is based on Psalm 118. In 1952 Fritz Enderlin added two more stanzas to the hymn, which are also inspired by Psalm 118.
In the Lutheran liturgy , for example , it is sung on Easter , on Easter Sundays and on Pentecost .

Web links

Commons : Psalm 118  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stuttgart Explanatory Bible. 2nd Edition. German Bible Society , Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-438-01121-2 , pp. 754 ff.
  2. ↑ Evangelisches Gesangbuch - Edition for the Evangelical Lutheran Churches in Bavaria and Thuringia, Munich, ISBN 3-583-12000-0 , p. 548 f.