Psalms • Chapter 7 (17 verses)
O Lord my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me: Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver. O Lord my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;
Psalms • Chapter 70 (5 verses)
Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O Lord. Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt. Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha.
Psalms • Chapter 71 (24 verses)
In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion. Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me. Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for tho... Mentions: Jacob/Israel .
Old Testament • 150 Chapters
Psalms (Old Testament, 150 chapters). Key figures: Jacob/Israel , David , Abram/Abraham , Judah , Manasseh , Ephraim . Key places: Zion , Bashan , Lebanon , Sirion , Kadesh 1 , Jordan . Opens with: "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornf..."
Psalms • Chapter 72 (20 verses)
Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son. He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment. The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness. Mentions: Jacob/Israel , David , Jesse , Tarshish , Sheba , Seba , Lebanon .
Psalms • Chapter 73 (28 verses)
Truly God is good to Israel , even to such as are of a clean heart. But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. Mentions: Jacob/Israel .
Psalms • Chapter 74 (23 verses)
O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion , wherein thou hast dwelt. Lift up thy feet ... Mentions: Zion .
Psalms • Chapter 75 (10 verses)
Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks: for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare. When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly. The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah. Mentions: Jacob/Israel .
Psalms • Chapter 76 (12 verses)
In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel . In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion . There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah. Mentions: Judah , Jacob/Israel , Salem , Zion .
Psalms • Chapter 77 (20 verses)
I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me. In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhe... Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Joseph , Moses , Aaron .
Psalms • Chapter 78 (72 verses)
Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Ephraim , Ham , Joseph , Judah , Egypt , Zoan , Ham 2 , Shiloh .
Psalms • Chapter 79 (13 verses)
O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. Their blood hav... Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Jerusalem .
Psalms • Chapter 17 (15 verses)
Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips. Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal. Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried ...
Psalms • Chapter 27 (14 verses)
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. Though an host should encamp against me, my heart sha...
Psalms • Chapter 37 (40 verses)
Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb. Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
Psalms • Chapter 47 (9 verses)
O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph. For the Lord most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth. He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet. Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Abram/Abraham .
Psalms • Chapter 57 (11 verses)
Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast. I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me. He shall send from heaven, and save...
Psalms • Chapter 67 (7 verses)
God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us; Selah. That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations. Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.
Psalms • Chapter 87 (7 verses)
His foundation is in the holy mountains. The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob . Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah. Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Zion , Rahab , Babylon , Philistia , Tyre .
Psalms • Chapter 97 (12 verses)
The Lord reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad thereof. Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne. A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about. Mentions: Judah , Zion .
Psalms • Chapter 107 (43 verses)
O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy; And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.
Psalms • Chapter 117 (2 verses)
O praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever. Praise ye the Lord.
Psalms • Chapter 127 (5 verses)
Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep. Lo, children are an heritage o...
Psalms • Chapter 137 (9 verses)
By the rivers of Babylon , there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion . We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of t... Mentions: Esau ( Edom ), Babylon , Zion , Jerusalem , Edom.
Psalms • Chapter 147 (20 verses)
Praise ye the Lord: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely. The Lord doth build up Jerusalem : he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel . He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Jerusalem , Zion .
to sing praise, pluck strings, celebrate
To make music with musical instruments, pluck strings, sing joyful lyrical praise to God (Psalm 104:33).
Derivation: Primitive root.
to sing, chant lyrical melody
To sing joyfully to Yahweh; imperative opening the enthronement psalms: Shiru l'Adonai ('Sing to the LORD a new song!').
Derivation: Primitive root.
song, lyrical poem, sacred ode
Song, musical praise, sacred song; Song of Songs (Shir Ha-Shirim) and Songs of Ascents (Shire Ha-Ma'alot, Psalms 120-134).
Derivation: From שִׁיר (H7891) to sing.
Generation 26 • Child of Izhar (or Amminadab)
( Exodus 6:21 , 1 Chronicles 6:22 , 1 Chronicles 6:37 ) This is the Korah that rose up with Dathan and Abiram against Moses and Aaron (Korah's rebellion) as recorded in Numbers 16:1-40 . The sons of Korah are credited with writing several Psalms (42, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 84, 85, 87, & 88).
Selah, lift up, musical/theological pause
Musical, liturgical, and theological pause in the Psalms and Habakkuk, inviting solemn contemplation of great redemptive truths.
Derivation: Perhaps from סָלַל (H5549) to lift up, exalt.
praise, song of adoration, psalm
Song of praise, adoration; Hebrew title of the Book of Psalms (Tehillim); God inhabits the praises of Israel (Psalm 22:3).
Derivation: From הָלַל (H1984) to praise.
psalm, melody with instrumental accompaniment
Psalm, musical ode; title of 57 individual psalms in the Psalter designed for stringed liturgical accompaniment.
Derivation: From זָמַר (H2167) to sing, make music.