Psalm 125

Psalm 125: a musician and a miniature of the city of Jerusalem, surrounded by mountains, frame the opening word שיר "song". (Hebrew manuscript, France 13th century, Museum Beit Hatefusot )

The short Psalm 125 ( Septuagint and Vulgate count: Psalm 124) is also named after its opening words in medieval Latin tradition: Qui confidunt in Domino . He belongs to the group of pilgrimage psalms and combines Zion theology with wisdom.

content

Verses 1 and 2: Two comparisons which derive encouraging statements about the God of Israel from the topography of Jerusalem : he is reliable and he is caring.

Verse 3: Emergency description. The unjust distribution of land in the land of Israel threatens to corrupt the just (צדיקים, zaddikim ). These tzaddikim are not a special group, but a different name for the whole people of Israel.

Verses 4-5a: Two requests. YHWH is supposed to enforce the wisdom of doing and behaving , the good should be fine and the bad should be bad.

Verse 5b: Pledge of peace to Israel.

context

The topographical situation of Jerusalem in the Judean highlands (19th century).

Psalm 125, together with Psalm 129, which also addresses an unhealthy world, frames three psalms that describe a quasi-idyllic, blessed life. This group of three 126–128 drafts three “comforting counterparts” to Psalms 125 and 129 in the composition of the pilgrimage column.

reception

Liturgy of the Hours

According to the Benedictine antiphonal, Psalm 125 is prayed in the noon shore on Tuesday, also at noon in the Commune Office for gentlemen's celebrations, church consecrations, monks and nuns, holy men and at noon in the proprium of September 29th (Michaelmas festival). Notker Füglister thus created a high presence of the statements of Psalm 125 in the monastic daily routine through his distribution of psalms.

literature

• Erich Zenger: Stuttgarter Psalter , Stuttgart 2005 ISBN 3-460-32068-0
• Egbert Ballhorn: On the Telos of the Psalter. The context of the text of the fourth and fifth books of the Psalms (Ps 90-150) , Berlin 2004

Web links

Commons : Psalm 125  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Psalm 125 in the standard translation , the Luther Bible and other translations from bibleserver.com
• Psalm 125 in the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) on bibelwissenschaft.de
• Sheet music in the public domain for settings of Psalm 125 in the Choral Public Domain Library - ChoralWiki (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Egbert Ballhorn: On the Telos of the Psalter . S. 231 .
2. ↑ Erich Zenger: Stuttgart Psalter . S. 346 .
3. ↑ Münsterschwarzach Abbey (ed.): Benedictine Antiphonale . 3. Edition. tape 2 . Münsterschwarzach 2007, p. 98 .
4. ↑ Benedictine Antiphonals . tape 2 , p. 134 .
5. ↑ Benedictine Antiphonals . tape 2 , p. 138 .
6. ↑ Benedictine Antiphonals . tape 2 , p. 155-156 .
7. ↑ Benedictine Antiphonals . tape 2 , p. 160-161 .
8. ↑ Benedictine Antiphonals . tape 2 , p. 191 .