Book of Psalms Summary and Meaning

🙌🏽 What is a psalm and what does the word mean?

The original Hebrew title for the book is Tehillim, which means "praises."

The Greek word for the book (psalmoi) means "instrumental music."

📖 The Book of Psalms

The Book of Psalms is a collection of songs praising God in the Old Testament.

There are 150 psalms as chapters in the Book of Psalms.

The psalms are divided into five books.

Seventy-three psalms are attributed to King David, but the sources of each of the psalms varies widely. The psalms developed during the course of many hundreds of years before becoming solidified in the Hebrew Bible.

The psalms were written to be used in religious worship. There are often instructions in the psalms for the music director to use, though the actual musical notes were lost over the years.

There are a variety of psalms: psalms of thanksgiving, psalms of praise, psalms of lament. Other psalms are sometimes called the wisdom psalms or historical psalms.

🙏🏽 Why the Book of Psalms is Important

We should not only read the Book of Psalms, we should pray with the psalms. Here are a few words from the introduction of the New American Bible:

"It has been rightly said that the Psalms are 'a school of prayer.' They not only provide us with models to follow, but inspire us to voice our own deepest feelings and aspirations."

Use the psalms as models for your own prayer. Read and recite them to express your own personal feelings of love for the Lord.

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* What kinds of psalms are there in the Book of Psalms?
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