My Strength and My Song

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Simon Peter Iredale. My Strength and My Song

My. Strength. and My. Song

Introduction

Psalm 29

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Psalm 38

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Psalm 36

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Psalm 35

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Psalm 34

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Psalm 27

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Psalm 25

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Psalm 22

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Psalm 23

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Psalm 19

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Psalm 15

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Psalm 130

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Psalm 14

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Psalm 11

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Psalm 9

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Psalm 8

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Psalm 5

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Psalm 4

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Psalm 3

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Psalm 1

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Psalm 73

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Psalm 71

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Psalm 46

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Psalm 68

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Psalm 66

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Psalm 65

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Psalm 48

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Psalm 69

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Psalm 2

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Psalm 45

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Psalm 108

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Psalm 100

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Psalm 99

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Psalm 92

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Psalm 82

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Psalm 79

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Psalm 78

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Psalm 90

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Psalm 77

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Psalm 75

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Psalm 74

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Psalm 145

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Psalm 144

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Psalm 139

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Psalm 137

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Psalms 131. and 133

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Psalm 127

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Psalm 121

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Psalm 103

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Psalm 120

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Psalm 119

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Psalm 33

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A Year With the Psalms

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The beauty and originality of the Psalms arise from the inherently poetic potentials of Hebrew. Many times as we read the Psalms, we feel even in translation the lilt of the phrases, the echo of one sentiment with another. This is what scholars have termed parallelism, where a thought is intensified by the succeeding thought, a voice is answered by another voice. This must have made these psalms eminently memorable for those who were effectively part of an oral culture. I have used the Revised Standard Version (1952) unless otherwise indicated, and I have also at times made reference to the Greek translation, the Septuagint, to better appreciate the range of certain words.

Nevertheless, if this were simply an ancient song book, it would be wonderful enough but probably only of antiquarian interest. The Christian world has looked to the Psalms in the same way as it has looked to much of the Old Testament—as prophecies of the coming of Christ. At different stages of this book we shall see how Christ referred to the Psalms in relation to himself and how the writers of the New Testament drew on the Psalms to understand their salvation. The early church used the Psalms as a constant prayer book, and it was not unusual for the early saints to commit the whole of the Psalter to memory. Indeed, even today in many parts of the Orthodox Christian world, monks sing the Psalms around the clock, a continual hymn of praise to God but also an emblem of the struggles of the spiritual life.

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