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The Psalms of Asaph (English: / ˈ eɪ. s æ f / Ay-saf; [1] Hebrew: אָסָף ’Āsāp̄, "Gather" [2]) are the twelve psalms numbered as 50 and 73–83 in the Masoretic Text, and as 49 and 72–82 in the Septuagint. They are located in the Book of Psalms in the Hebrew Bible (which is also called the Old Testament).
The psalm can be divided into an introduction (verses 1-6), two separate orations in which God testifies against the Jews (verses 7-15 and 16-21), and a conclusion (verses 22-23). [7] The imagery of the introduction evokes the revelation of the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai , where God's appearance was accompanied by thunder and lightning. [ 8 ]
Psalm 15 is the 15th psalm in the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?" In the slightly different numbering system used in the Greek Septuagint and Latin Vulgate translations of the Bible, this psalm is Psalm 14 .
The Book of Psalms (/ s ɑː (l) m z /, US also / s ɔː (l) m z /; [1] Biblical Hebrew: תְּהִלִּים , romanized: Tehillīm, lit. 'praises'; Ancient Greek: Ψαλμός, romanized: Psalmós; Latin: Liber Psalmorum; Arabic: زَبُورُ, romanized: Zabūr), also known as the Psalter, is the first book of the third section of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) called Ketuvim ('Writings ...
Together with Heman, the grandson of the Israelite prophet Samuel (1 Chronicles 6:24, or 1 Chronicles 6:39 in non-Hebrew translations), he and his male descendants were set aside by King David to worship God in song and music (1 Chronicles 15:16–17). He authored Psalm 50, and Psalms 73 to 83. Asaph, a Levite descendant of Kohath (1 Chronicles ...
But to take view of other strange creatures, make roome, I pray, for another Rabbi with his Bird; and a great deale of roome you will say is requisite: Rabbi Kimchi on the 50. Psalme auerreth out of Rabbi Iehudah , that Ziz is a bird so great, that with spreading abroad his wings, he hideth the Sunne, and darkeneth all the world.
The New Testament contains passages that quote verses from these Psalms which are not imprecatory in nature. Jesus is shown quoting from them in John 2:17 and John 15:25, while Paul the Apostle quotes from Psalm 69 in the Epistle to the Romans 11:9-10 and 15:3.
One of the Songs of Ascents, Psalm 122 appears in Hebrew on the walls at the entrance to the City of David, Jerusalem.. Song of Ascents is a title given to fifteen of the Psalms, 120–134 (119–133 in the Septuagint and the Vulgate), each starting with the superscription "Shir Hama'aloth" (Hebrew: שיר המעלות, romanized: šir ham-ma‘loṯ, lit.