Psalm 62

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The Ps 62 (according to the Greek count 61) is a Ps David "and in the series lament classify an individual".

structure

Erhard S. Gerstenberger divides the psalm as follows:

  • Verse 1: heading
  • Verse 2f .: Annunciation
  • Verse 4: censure
  • Verse 5: accusation
  • Verses 6-8: Annunciation
  • Verses 9-13: Admonition

interpretation

The Old Testament scholar James Limburg sees the idea of ​​God as a rock in the Psalm as central. Finally, this idea comes up in verses 3, 7, and 8. This idea of ​​the rock appears later in the idea of Christ as the rock of the Church .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerstenberger, Psalms, Part 2 (2001), 8
  2. James Limburg, Psalms (2000), 205

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