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Psalm 5 is the fifth psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation". In Latin, it is known as "Verba mea auribus percipe Domine". [1] The psalm is traditionally attributed to David.
The presence of this event in a book of poetry has been interpreted as a poetic description of the prolonged battle. [2]According to the medieval Jewish scholar Rashi, "Sefer HaYashar" in this verse refers to the Pentateuch: Jacob's prophecy regarding Joshua's ancestor Ephraim—"His seed will fill the nations" [3] —was fulfilled when Joshua's victory gave him renown among the various ...
Image from "Jeremiah's Lament" of Francysk Skaryna (1517–1519), in the Taraškievica orthography of the Belarussian language Greek translation of Lamentations 1:1–1:11 in the Codex Sinaiticus The Book of Lamentations ( Hebrew : אֵיכָה , ʾĒḵā , from its incipit meaning "how") is a collection of poetic laments for the destruction ...
This psalm points the reader or hearer towards offering thanksgiving and a life of devotion as the correct way of approach to God, rather than burnt offerings alone. Some feel this Psalm, which is a type of judicial indictment, was moved to immediately precede Psalm 51, a plea for mercy, rather than being with the other 11 Psalms of Asaph which ...
Psalm 9 is the ninth psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works." In Latin, it is known as " Confitebor tibi, Domine ". [ 1 ]
The New Cambridge Paragraph Bible with the Apocrypha is a newly edited edition of the King James Version of the Bible (KJV) published by Cambridge University Press in 2005. [1] This 2005 edition was printed as The Bible (Penguin Classics) in 2006. [2] The editor is David Norton, Reader in English at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
A City Lament is a poetic elegy for a lost or fallen city. This literary genre, from around 2000 BCE onwards, was particularly prevalent in the Mesopotamian region of the Ancient Near East . [ 1 ] The Bible's Book of Lamentations concerning Jerusalem around 586 BCE, contains some elements of a city lament.
Psalm 69 is the 69th psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul". It is subtitled: "To the chief musician, upon Shoshannim, a Psalm of David". The Book of Psalms is part of the third section of the Hebrew Bible, and a book of the Christian Old Testament.