Psalm 12

Table with words from Psalm 12 verse 6. To declare these words as a statement of Jesus has no basis in the Psalm itself and is probably due to a misinterpretation of the words "speaks the Lord ".

The 12th psalm (according to Greek counting the 11th) is a psalm of David . Its genus is unclear. Most of the time, however, it is classified as belonging to the liturgy .

genus

The genre of the psalm is unclear. Jörg Jeremias sees him most likely as part of the “prophetic liturgy of lamentation”. Also Hermann Gunkel calls the Psalm as "liturgy". "Liturgy" means here that the intention of the performance with changing voices was in the service.

structure

Gunkel divides the psalm as follows:

• Verse 2f .: After a short cry for help the complaint that falsehood prevails
• Verse 4f .: Wish that YHWH intervene
• Verse 6: Consolation that YHWH's salvation now appears
• Verses 7–9: Church's answer: Praising YHWH's word

reception

• In 1523, Martin Luther created the chorale Oh God, behold it from heaven for the psalm ( Evangelical hymn book No. 273).
• Luther's chorale was edited many times, including a. by Johann Sebastian Bach in the cantata Oh God, from heaven see therein, BWV 2 (1724).

Web links

Commons : Psalm 12  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Psalm 12 in the standard translation , the Luther Bible and other translations from bibleserver.com
• Psalm 12 in the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) on bibelwissenschaft.de
• Public domain sheet music of settings for Psalm 12 in the Choral Public Domain Library - ChoralWiki (English)
• Psalm 12 in the song database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Theodor Lescow: The stages scheme 1992, p 123rd
2. ↑ Hermann Gunkel: Die Psalmen ⁶ 1986, p. 43.
3. ↑ Hermann Gunkel: Introduction to Psalms ⁴ 1985, p. 407.
4. ↑ Hermann Gunkel: The Psalms , p. 43f.