Psalm 37
The 37th psalm is a psalm of David from the first book of the psalter . According to the Vulgate count , it represents the 36th Psalm.
content
The psalm deals with the question of the apparent happiness of the wicked. He warns against being indignant about it, since God's answer is already fixed.
construction
The Hebrew text is structured so that every two verses make up a stanza. The beginnings of the individual stanzas follow the Hebrew alphabet . Thus the psalm belongs to the group of acrostic psalms.
reception
The hymn you command your ways by Paul Gerhardt contains the 5th verse of Psalm 37 as an acrostic . That is, the first words of each verse result in this verse in sequence.
Web links
Commons : Psalm 37 - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Psalm 37 in the standardized translation , the Luther Bible and other translations from bibleserver.com
- Psalm 37 in the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) on bibelwissenschaft.de
- Sheet music in the public domain for settings of Psalm 37 in the Choral Public Domain Library - ChoralWiki (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Stuttgart Explanatory Bible. 2nd Edition. German Bible Society , Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-438-01121-2 , p. 692 f.