Psalm 85

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The 85th psalm (according to Greek counting the 84th) is a psalm of the Korah sons . It belongs to the liturgy.

Generic definition

The orientalist Heinrich Georg August Ewald defined the genre of the psalms as a "folk lament" with a divine answer, ie an oracle to it (verses 9-14). The return from the Babylonian exile has already happened, but has not yet been felt as a salvation. Most of the theologians of the time adopted this view .

Another direction sees the part that speaks of salvation as an announcement of the future that precedes the prayer of the community for salvation and thus regards the prayer as beginning with a prophecy. However, this also makes it impossible to determine an age.

structure

The psalm can be broken down as follows:

  1. Verses 1-4: proclaiming prophetic certainty
  2. Verses 5-8: Lamentation of the church considering the suffering of the present situation
  3. Verses 9-14: Answer from a divine oracle

reception

The song Lord, who you have before your country by Paul Gerhardt (Evangelical Hymn book No. 283) is based on the 85th Psalm.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Georg August Ewald , Poet of the Old Covenant I ( 3 1866)
  2. ^ Franz Delitzsch , Commentary on Psalter I , ( 4 1883), 642ff.
  3. ^ Justus Olshausen , The Psalms (1853), 350
  4. ^ Friedrich Baethgen (theologian) , Psalms ( 3 1904)
  5. ↑ Bernhard Duhm , Psalms ( 2 1922)
  6. ^ Rudolf Kittel , Psalms ( 3.4.1991 )
  7. ^ A b Hermann Gunkel, Die Psalmen ( 6 1986), 373

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