Psalm 17
The 17th Psalm (according to Greek counting the 16th) is a Psalm of David and belongs to the genre of the "innocent songs".
structure
The psalm can be structured as follows:
- Verse 1f: extended introduction: invocation of YHWH in request and desire
- Verses 3-5: Affirmation of innocence
- Verses 6–8: Expressing requests and wishes based on certainty of innocence
- Verses 9-12: The evil kind of enemies
- Verse 13f .: Request and wish for vengeance against his enemies
- Verse 15: Request and wish for the poet himself
interpretation
Verse 15b
The awakening mentioned in the final verse "But I [...] will be saturated when I wake up with your image" ( Elberfelder ) caused problems for research and was interpreted in various ways:
- Heinrich Georg August Ewald and Bernhard Duhm and others suggest waking up in the morning, that is, the psalm is to be understood as an evening song.
- Rudolf Kittel interpret awakening as the resurrection, since sleeping in the Old Testament often symbolizes death .
- Friedrich Baethgen and Emil Kautzsch see Israel awakening from its powerlessness.
- Hans Keßler sees the passage as "spoiled", that is, as rendered pointless by later editing.
Web links
Commons : Psalm 17 - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Psalm 17 in the standard translation , the Luther Bible and other translations from bibleserver.com
- Psalm 17 in the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) on bibelwissenschaft.de
- Sheet music in the public domain of settings for Psalm 17 in the Choral Public Domain Library - ChoralWiki (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hermann Gunkel : Die Psalmen 6 1986, p. 55.
- ^ Hermann Gunkel: Die Psalmen 6 1986, p. 56.