Psalm 67

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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 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:

  1. 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 )
  2. 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

Commons : Psalm 67  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frank-Lothar Hossfeld, Erich Zenger, Psalms 51-100 , 234f.
  2. ^ Artur Weiser, The Psalms II: Psalm 61-150 , 357
  3. ^ Ferdinand Hitzig, The Psalms historically-critically examined (1853), 129
  4. ^ Hermann Gunkel, Die Psalmen ( 6 1986), 280f.