Psalm 29

Psalm 29 in a Polish setting (Ogg Opus audio file, length: 2 min 43 s, 129 kbps)

The 29th Psalm (according to Greek counting the 28th) is a Psalm of David and can be classified in the series of hymns .

structure

The psalm can be divided into the following sections:

• Verse 1: Calling the Divine Congregation to Honor YHWH (Prelude)
• Verses 2–9: Description of thunder as YHWH's voice ("corpus")
• Verse 10: victorious YHWH (postlude)

Dating

The psalm is considered to be one of the oldest psalms. The shape and message are similar to ancient Canaanite poetry. Precisely for this reason, however, it is sometimes assumed that the psalm originates from the post-exilic period when attempts were made to imitate the archaic style.

use

In Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's important work Faust , the psalm is imitated in the “Song of the Archangels”.

Web links

Commons : Psalm 29  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Psalm 29 in the standard translation , the Luther Bible and other translations from bibleserver.com
• Psalm 29 in the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) on bibelwissenschaft.de
• Sheet music in the public domain for settings of Psalm 29 in the Choral Public Domain Library - ChoralWiki (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. z. B. Steussy: Psalms 2004, p. 109.
2. ↑ Stanislav Segert: Poetry and Arithmetic in Mythos im Alten Testament und seine Umwelt (1999), p. 167.
3. ^ Hermann Gunkel: Die Psalmen ⁶ 1986, p. 122.