Psalm 136

The 136th psalm is a biblical psalm from the fifth book of the psalter .

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Psalm 136 is a liturgy of thanksgiving. It probably belongs to the Passover tradition , but its use for other festivals is also conceivable. In this liturgy, a cantor develops a creed, to which the congregation answers with a fixed liturgical call (“for his goodness endures forever”).
The psalm is structured in such a way that, upon an introductory call (verses 1–3), praise to the Lord for his deeds as creator (verses 4–9), as Lord of history (verses 10–24) and as sustainer of life (v 25) follows. Verse 26 repeats the introductory appeal.

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Judaism

With Psalm 135 , Psalm 136 forms the Great Hallel of the Passover liturgy.

Christianity

The hymn Thank God, because it is good by Johannes Riggenbach is based on Psalm 136. Heinrich Schütz set the Psalm Danket der Herren to music, because it is friendly twice (SWV 32; 45). Georg Philipp Telemann created three church cantatas Thank the Lord, because he is friendly (TWV 1: 157; 1: 158; 1: 159). Heinz Werner Zimmermann composed the organ psalm 136 in 1955 .

Web links

Commons : Psalm 136  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Psalm 136 in the standard translation , the Luther Bible and other translations from bibleserver.com
• Psalm 136 in the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) on bibelwissenschaft.de
• Sheet music in the public domain of settings for Psalm 136 in the Choral Public Domain Library - ChoralWiki (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stuttgart Explanatory Bible. 2nd Edition. German Bible Society , Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-438-01121-2 , p. 767
2. ↑ The Bible with Explanations. 3rd edition, Evangelische Haupt-Bibelgesellschaft, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-7461-0069-0 .
3. ^ Evangelisches Gesangbuch - Edition for the Evangelical Lutheran Churches in Bavaria and Thuringia, Munich, ISBN 3-583-12000-0 , p. 559