Favorite Psalms

And then for me comes Ps 25 and 27.

I have many but Psalms 23, Psalms 91 , Psalms 100 and Psalms 117

This is one of my favorites...it is the first one I sang as a babe in the Lord (1974-back when the Jesus people put many Psalms to music).


Psalms 34:1-22 I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.
O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.
I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.
They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.
This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.
O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.
The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.
The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.

PS: Ms sanglina: The Psalms encompass a sheer range of high, certain hopes, extreme emotion, repentant solemnity: the whole range of human feeling, in fact. Thus to the truly receptive heart they are always very instructive.

Blessings.

And then for me comes Ps 86 and 119.

Do you usually read 119 all in one sitting?

Blessings.

Good question!

There are about 65 short parts of it which I find most meaningful to me,
and it is those parts that I pray in one sitting.

105 is the most often quoted verse of Ps119, right?

Blessings.

Well it is quoted often, which may be why it is not one of my 65.

...and I think verse 89 of 119 is also quoted a lot: 'For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven'.

Blessings.

That one is in my 65.

I love that one.

In 119, the terms 'word', 'law' and 'statute' seem to be used similarly. I know some people
try to use Ps 119 to try to prove that the church must be brought under the law and that - never mind about Hebrews 7 - the church is institutionally a continuation of the synagogue. I myself do struggle with this way of reading the Psalms, though.

Blessings.

I think Heb 1:1-2 makes clear that the revelation spoken by the Son in these last days
through the NT writers, is the light in which the OT is to be understood.

Furthermore, the revelation spoken by the Son to Paul, years after
the revelation spoken by the Son to the apostles before his death and completed work,
is the light in which the gospels are to be understood.

And in this latter revelation of the Son through the NT writers in the epistles, it is clear that
in the new covenant we are under the law of Christ (Mt 22:37-39; 1Co 9:21; Gal 6:2),
which is the law of love (Gal 5:6; Jas 2:8) that fulfills (performs) all the commandments
(Ro 13:8-10),

for the Mosaic law was set aside (Heb 7:18-19)
when God fulfilled Ps 110:4 by changing the priesthood in the order of Aaron
to the priesthood in the order of Melchizedek (Heb 7:11),
making Jesus the new and eternal High Priest of a new priestly order,
and changing the Mosaic law (Heb 7:12) which was based on the priesthood (Heb 7:11),
setting it aside (Heb 7:18) because it was weak and useless to make righteous (Heb 7:19),

and in setting aside the Mosaic law, God made the covenant based on it obsolete (Heb 8:13).

We are under a whole new order (Heb 9:10) in the new covenant,
where God's law is written within, on our hearts, not on external tablets of stone,
and where the Holy Spirit enables us to fulfill the law in loving the brethren.

Elin: I have read your post through and yes I think I would generally agree very much with what you said.

On another thread here someone is trying to argue the opposite from what you and I apparently think,
from Psalm 119's use of the term 'law'.

Blessings.

I suspect you are referring to the Judaizer (Gal 2:14) thread.

They are Christians who want the church to live as do the Jews.

It's been going on since Paul (Gal 2:14). . .some things never change.

I suspect you are referring to the Judaizer (Gal 2:14) thread.

They are Christians who want the church to live as do the Jews.

It's been going on since Paul (Gal 2:14). . .some things never change.

But back the Psalms, after Ps 16, 19, and 143, for me come Ps 8, 32, and 62.