Psalm 6

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A 15th century French miniature of the psalm

The 6th psalm is a psalm of David and belongs to the series of the seven penitential psalms . Today the psalm is placed in the series of lamentations .

genus

Since Augustine 's Enarrationes in Psalmos , the psalm has been counted among the penitential psalms for a long time, most recently by Eduard König until the emergence of the form-historical method at the beginning of the 20th century .

Since then, however, according to Hermann Gunkel , the psalm has been classified more in the series of individual lamentations and sometimes specified in this classification as the “sick psalm ”.

structure

In research there are many different approaches to structuring the psalm. The Old Testament scholar Antonius Kuckhoff has put all these approaches together. These are:

2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 Reason Originator
Please and complaint Jubilation over hearing Change
of mood from verse 8 to 9 		Nicolaas Herman Ridderbos
part One Part II Keyword connection
in verses 6 and 11 		Marc Girard
part One Part II Pierre Auffret
part One Part II AA Da Silva
Verse A Verse B Verse C Verse D. Verse E.
Verse 1 Verse 2 Verse 3 stylistically Erich Zenger
and others
Verse 1 Verse 2 Verse 3 stylistically Aletti, Jacques Trublet ,
Claus Westerman
and others
Verse 1 Verse 2 Verse 3 Verse 4 stylistically Eduard König , Terrien
and others
Verse 1 commentary
gloss 		Verse 2 Verse 3 Verse 4 commentary
gloss 		stylistically Oswald Loretz
Invocation of
YHWH 		Ask Description of
the
situation
Testimony of hearing		 Hans-Joachim Kraus

The first verse is only an introductory verse and is therefore not included in the structure.

Remarks

Heading (verse 1)

The psalm heading can be interpreted in different ways:

  • As a hint for the choirmaster
  • for musical performance (string playing)
  • eschatological with regard to the end times (this suggests the possibly incorrect translation of the Septuagint )

Scholasticism in particular liked to emphasize that the number eight occurs frequently in the Bible . For example circumcision after eight days or eight survivors of the Flood .

Interpretation history

The 6th Psalm is very important for Martin Luther . On the basis of this he establishes various central points of his theology:

  • The enmity of the enemy should not be accepted from the enemy, but from God. Anyone who looks at people becomes impatient
  • The person praying should fear the wrath of God and ask that he be punished as a child of God
  • Only those who consider themselves lost can receive God's help.

reception

In the Rule of Benedict it says:

"At Prim on Monday you sing three psalms, namely Psalm 1, Psalm 2 and Psalm 6. "

The psalm formed the basis for Johann Georg Albini's chorale punish me not in your anger (1686, excerpt ; EKG 176).

The French composer Henry Desmarest processed the psalm with the domine ne in furore in his work "Grands Motets Lorrains".

literature

  • Antonius Kuckhoff: Psalm 6 and the requests in the psalter: a paradigmatic supplication and lamentation on the horizon of the overall psalter (=  Bonn biblical contributions . Volume 160 ). V&R unipress, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-89971-776-1 .
  • Hans-Christian Knuth: On the history of the interpretation of Psalm 6 (=  contributions to the history of biblical exegesis . Volume 11 ). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1971, ISBN 3-16-131551-0 .

Web links

Commons : Psalm 6  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ For example, from Gregory the Great, In septem Psalmos Paenitentialis ; Alkuin , Expositio in Psalmos Poenitentialis ; Cassiodorus , Expositio in Psalmorum ; Martin Luther , Dictata super Psalterium and Operationes in Psalmos
  2. ↑ Kuckhoff: Psalm 6 and the requests in the Psalter . 2011, p. 14th f .
  3. ↑ Hermann Gunkel: The Psalms . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1986, p. 21 .
  4. ↑ Kuckhoff: Psalm 6 and the requests in the Psalter . 2011, p. 37 ff .
  5. ^ Hans-Joachim Kraus: Psalms . 6th edition. 1989, p. 25 .