Psalm 67
The 67th psalm (according to Greek counting the 66th) is a psalm from the third book of psalms in the Bible . It belongs to the genre of the thanksgiving songs of the people.
structure
Frank-Lothar Hossfeld and Erich Zenger propose the following concentric structuring of the psalm:
- Verse 2f: Request for blessings and universal knowledge of God
- Verse 4: Refrain: Call to universal praise
- Verse 5: Justification: God judges the earth
- Verse 6: Refrain: Call to universal praise
- Verse 4: Refrain: Call to universal praise
- Verse 7f: harvest, petition for blessings and universal fear of God
Design attempts
The method of interpretation has included various paths for the psalm.
The historical interpretation
Historical interpretation tries to interpret the psalm on the basis of a historical event. Possible events proposed for this are:
- The siege of Jerusalem under Sennacherib in 701 BC In the second book of kings ( 2 kings 19 EU ) and in the book of Isaiah ( Isa 37 EU )
- The victory of Judas over Seron in the Maccabees . This is reported in the 1st book of the Maccabees ( 1 Makk 3,13-24 EU )
The cultic interpretation
The cultic interpretation understands the psalm in the context of the festival cult. Hermann Gunkel determined this festival cult with the harvest festival (see verse 7). Gaining food used to be the main object of thanks.
The eschatological interpretation
The eschatological understanding would like to interpret the entire psalm as a prophecy of end-time events.
Church music reception
In the song Let God be gracious to us from 1524, Martin Luther worked on the theme of the 67th Psalm.
Web links
- Psalm 67 in the standard translation , the Luther Bible and other translations from bibleserver.com
- Psalm 67 in the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) on bibelwissenschaft.de
- Sheet music in the public domain of settings for Psalm 67 in the Choral Public Domain Library - ChoralWiki (English)
- Psalm 67 in the Open Bible