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Longfellow wrote the poem shortly after completing lectures on German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and was heavily inspired by him. He was also inspired to write it by a heartfelt conversation he had with friend and fellow professor at Harvard University Cornelius Conway Felton; the two had spent an evening "talking of matters, which lie near one's soul:–and how to bear one's self ...
"Our God, Our Help in Ages Past" (or "O God, Our Help in Ages Past") is a hymn by Isaac Watts in 1708 that paraphrases the 90th Psalm of the Book of Psalms. It originally consisted of nine stanzas; however, in present usage the fourth, sixth, and eighth stanzas are commonly omitted to leave a total of six (Methodist hymn books also include the ...
The Psalms of Solomon is a group of eighteen psalms, religious songs or poems, written in the first or second century BC.They are classed as Biblical apocrypha or as Old Testament pseudepigrapha; they appear in various copies of the Septuagint and the Peshitta, but were not admitted into later scriptural Biblical canons or generally included in printed Bibles after the arrival of the printing ...
The scroll gets its name from the recurring use of the phrase "I thank you" in many of the poems. The Hebrew word Hodayot refers to "thanks" or "thanksgiving". Other names include Thanksgiving Hymns, [1] Thanksgiving Psalms, [2] Hymns Scroll and Scroll of Hymns. [3] The main scroll found in 1947 is designated 1QH a. Other fragments of this text ...
The Song of Hannah is a poem interpreting the prose text of the Books of Samuel. According to the surrounding narrative, the poem (1 Samuel 2:1–10) was a prayer delivered by Hannah, to give thanks to God for the birth of her son, Samuel. It is similar to Psalm 113 [1] and the Magnificat. [2]
The Book of Psalms (/ s ɑː (l) m z /, US also / s ɔː (l) m z /; [2] 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'), and a ...
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The Psalm was written in the 16th Century by Philip Sidney, and was the last work he wrote before he died. The Sidney Psalter is a poetic adaption of the Biblical Psalms and differs much from other reworkings of the Psalms throughout the Renaissance period. Psalm 43 focuses on God as a protector alongside his absence and presence throughout.