PSALMS

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PSALMS

• The Hymnbook of God

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Characteristics of the Psalms

• A thousand years of history
• Musical instruments
• Quoted in New Testament
• Relates our response to God
• A sensory book

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Structure of the Psalms
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PSALM 1
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Psalm 21-2

• Why are the nations in an uproar,
• And the peoples devising a vain thing?
• The kings of the earth take their stand,
• And the rulers take counsel together
• Against the LORD and against His Anointed.

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Psalm 26-7

• 6 But as for Me, I have installed My King Upon
  Zion,
• My holy mountain."
• 7 I will surely tell of the decree of the LORD
• He said to Me, 'Thou art My Son,
• Today I have begotten Thee.

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Psalm 28-9

• 8 'Ask of Me, and I will surely give the nations
  as Thine inheritance,
• And the very ends of the earth as Thy possession.
• 9 'Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron,
• Thou shalt shatter them like earthenware.'"

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Psalm 22-24

• Psalm 22. The Suffering Servant
• Psalm 23. The Good Shepherd
• Psalm 24. The Sovereign King

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The title Elohim is used much more than is the
name Yahweh
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Psalm 421-3

• 1 As the deer pants for the water brooks,
• So my soul pants for Thee, O God.
• 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God
• When shall I come and appear before God?
• 3 My tears have been my food day and night,
• While they say to me all day long,
• "Where is your God?"

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Psalm 424

• These things I remember, and I pour out my soul
  within me.
• For I used to go along with the throng and lead
  them in procession to the house of God,
• With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a
  multitude keeping festival.

• You cannot rest on yesterdays experiences
• Mutual support encouragement

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Psalm 425

• Why are you in despair, O my soul?
• And why have you become disturbed within me?
• Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him
• For the help of His presence.

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Psalm 451

• For the choir director according to the
  Shoshannim.
• A Maskil of the sons of Korah.
• A Song of Love.
• My heart overflows with a good theme
• I address my verses to the King
• My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

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Psalm 457-8

• 7 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated
  wickedness
• Therefore God, Thy God, has anointed Thee With
  the oil of joy above Thy fellows.
• 8 All Thy garments are fragrant with myrrh and
  aloes and cassia
• Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have
  made Thee glad.

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PSALM 51
Prayer for individual restoration (1-2)
Prayer for national restoration (18-19)
Confession (3-6)
Thanksgiving (3-6)

• Prayer for Restoration
• Cleansing from sin (7-9)
• Inward renewal (10-12)

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Psalm 52-59
Davids flight from Saul
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Mikhtams of David
Maskils of David
Meditation
Golden Prayer
Lkf - To be Prudent
tK - Gold
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Psalm 571

• For the choir director set to Al-tashheth.
• A Mikhtam of David, when he fled from Saul, in
  the cave.
• Be gracious to me, O God, be gracious to me,
• For my soul takes refuge in Thee
• And in the shadow of Thy wings I will take
  refuge,
• Until destruction passes by

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Focus upon Israel, Jerusalem and the Temple
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An exclusive use of Yahweh
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Psalm 901

• A Prayer of Moses the man of God.
• 1 Lord, Thou hast been our dwelling place in all
  generations.
• 2 Before the mountains were born,
• Or Thou didst give birth to the earth and the
  world,
• Even from everlasting to everlasting,
• Thou art God.

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Psalm 921-2

• 1 A Psalm, a Song for the Sabbath day.
• It is good to give thanks to the LORD,
• And to sing praises to Thy name,
• O Most High
• 2 To declare Thy lovingkindness in the morning,
• And Thy faithfulness by night,

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Psalm 923-4

• 3 With the ten-stringed lute, and with the harp
• With resounding music upon the lyre.
• 4 For Thou, O LORD, hast made me glad by what
  Thou hast done,
• I will sing for joy at the works of Thy hands.

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Psalm 1001-3

• 1 Psalm for Thanksgiving.
• Shout joyfully to the LORD, all the earth.
• 2 Serve the LORD with gladness
• Come before Him with joyful singing.
• 3 Know that the LORD Himself is God
• It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves
• We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

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Psalm 1004-5

• 4 Enter His gates with thanksgiving,
• And His courts with praise.
• Give thanks to Him bless His name.
• 5 For the LORD is good
• His lovingkindness is everlasting,
• And His faithfulness to all generations.

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Psalm 103-108

• For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
  So great is His lovingkindness toward those who
  fear Him (10311)
• As for man, his days are like grass As a flower
  of the field, so he flourishes. 16 When the
  wind has passed over it, it is no more And its
  place acknowledges it no longer (10315-16).
• He established the earth upon its foundations
  (1045).

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Psalm 103-108

• 8 He has remembered His covenant forever,
• The word which He commanded to a
• thousand generations,
• 9 The covenant which He made with Abraham,
• And His oath to Isaac.
• 10 Then He confirmed it to Jacob for a statute,
• To Israel as an everlasting covenant (Psalm
  1058-10).

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Psalm 103-108

• He rebuked the Red Sea and it dried up And He
  led them through the deeps, as through the
  wilderness (1069)
• 7 God has spoken in His holiness "I will exult,
  I will portion out Shechem, And measure out the
  valley of Succoth.
• 8 Gilead is Mine, Manasseh is Mine Ephraim
  also is the helmet of My head Judah is My
  scepter. (Psalm 1087-8).

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Psalm 1101

• A Psalm of David.
• The LORD says to my Lord
• "Sit at My right hand,
• Until I make Thine enemies a footstool for Thy
  feet."

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The Hallel

• The Psalms of Praise
• Psalms 113-118
• (Sung at Passover)

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Psalm 11821-23

• 21 I shall give thanks to Thee, for Thou hast
  answered me
• And Thou hast become my salvation.
• 22 The stone which the builders rejected
• Has become the chief corner stone.
• 23 This is the LORD's doing
• It is marvelous in our eyes.

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Psalm 1201-2

• 1 A Song of Ascents, of David.
• I Was glad when they said to me,
• "Let us go to the house of the LORD."
• 2 Our feet are standing
• Within your gates, O Jerusalem,

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Psalm 1203-4

• 3 Jerusalem, that is built
• As a city that is compact together
• 4 To which the tribes go up, even the tribes of
  the LORD--
• An ordinance for Israel--
• To give thanks to the name of the LORD.

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Psalm 1341-3

• 1 A Song of Ascents.
• Behold, bless the LORD, all servants of the LORD,
• Who serve by night in the house of the LORD!
• 2 Lift up your hands to the sanctuary,
• And bless the LORD.
• 3 May the LORD bless you from Zion,
• He who made heaven and earth.

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Psalm 1371

• By the rivers of Babylon,
• There we sat down and wept,
• When we remembered Zion.

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Psalm 1372-4

• 2 Upon the willows in the midst of it We hung our
  harps.
• 3 For there our captors demanded of us songs,
• And our tormentors mirth, saying, "Sing us one of
  the songs of Zion."
• 4 How can we sing the LORD's song
• In a foreign land?

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Psalm 1375-6

• 5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
• May my right hand forget her skill.
• 6 May my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth,
• If I do not remember you,
• If I do not exalt Jerusalem
• Above my chief joy.

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The Value of the Psalms

• A Commentary of the Old Testament
• Liturgy for Worship
• A Pattern for Prayer
• Wisdom for Living

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