Who has a favorite Psalm?

[farouk]

2 minutes ago, AFlameOfFire said:

farouk, what does FYI my user name Psalm thread started mean? I don't understand why I got a notification for a Psalm thread and another thread, never got one of these before.

FYI just means, For your information.

i.e., if you appreciate Psalms, do you have a favorite one?

[Guest AFlameOfFire]

31 minutes ago, farouk said:

FYI just means, For your information.

i.e., if you appreciate Psalms, do you have a favorite one?

Oh thanks farouk.  Gees, I guess if I had to chose (and I was limited only to the Psalms and could not mix between the Psalms with any other scriptures I would have to chose Psalm 110 and 2 firstly as those I appreciate the most

[1] The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
[2] The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.
[3] Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.
[4] The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
[5] The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
[6] He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.

 

[1] Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
[2] The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
[3] Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
[4] He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
[5] Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
[6] Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
[7] I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
[8] Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
[9] Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
[10] Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
[11] Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
[12] Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

 

 

[farouk]

Hi @Godshand FYI.......thread on favorite Psalms; do you have one?

[Godshand]

@farouk I don't have one

[SavedOnebyGrace]

(Psalms 122:1)  A Song of Ascents. Of David. I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD!”
(Psalms 122:2)  Our feet have been standing within your gates, O Jerusalem!
(Psalms 122:3)  Jerusalem—built as a city that is bound firmly together,
(Psalms 122:4)  to which the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, as was decreed for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the LORD.
(Psalms 122:5)  There thrones for judgment were set, the thrones of the house of David.
(Psalms 122:6)  Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! “May they be secure who love you!
(Psalms 122:7)  Peace be within your walls and security within your towers!”
(Psalms 122:8)  For my brothers and companions' sake I will say, “Peace be within you!”
(Psalms 122:9)  For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your good. [ESV]

 

[farouk]

On 10/11/2023 at 4:02 PM, AFlameOfFire said:

 

[1] The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
[2] The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.
[3] Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.
[4] The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
[5] The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
[6] He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.

 

[1] Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
[2] The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
[3] Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
[4] He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
[5] Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
[6] Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
[7] I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
[8] Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
[9] Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
[10] Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
[11] Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
[12] Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

 

 

@AFlameOfFire Yes, Psalm is amazingly Messianic, really, with regard to the exalted position of the Son of God, Whom David acknowledges as his Lord.

[farouk]

20 hours ago, SavedOnebyGrace said:

(Psalms 122:1)  A Song of Ascents. Of David. I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD!”
(Psalms 122:2)  Our feet have been standing within your gates, O Jerusalem!
(Psalms 122:3)  Jerusalem—built as a city that is bound firmly together,
(Psalms 122:4)  to which the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, as was decreed for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the LORD.
(Psalms 122:5)  There thrones for judgment were set, the thrones of the house of David.
(Psalms 122:6)  Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! “May they be secure who love you!
(Psalms 122:7)  Peace be within your walls and security within your towers!”
(Psalms 122:8)  For my brothers and companions' sake I will say, “Peace be within you!”
(Psalms 122:9)  For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your good. [ESV]

 

People often indeed read Psalms 22, 23 and 24 together..........

[farouk]

Good to see the responses to this thread! any more favorite Psalms, ppl?

[other one]

I don't remember if I've posted this, But Psalm 82 with the ESV version changed my general cosmology of what's going on in  the world.

Ps 82:1-83:1

82  God has taken his place in the divine council;in the midst of the gods he holds judgment:2 "How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked?Selah3  Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.4  Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked."
5  They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
6  I said, "You are gods,sons of the Most High, all of you;7 nevertheless, like men you shall die,and fall like any prince."
8  Arise, O God, judge the earth;for you shall inherit all the nations!
O God, Do Not Keep Silence

A Song. A Psalm of Asaph.
ESV

 

[farouk]

On 8/9/2023 at 12:57 PM, Ps37 said:

Psalm 1

1 Blessed is the one
    who does not walk in step with the wicked
or stand in the way that sinners take
    or sit in the company of mockers,
2 but whose delight is in the law of the Lord,
    and who meditates on his law day and night.
3 That person is like a tree planted by streams of water,
    which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither—
    whatever they do prospers.

4 Not so the wicked!
    They are like chaff
    that the wind blows away.
5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
    nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

6 For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous,
    but the way of the wicked leads to destruction.

@Ps37 Great Psalm; thr King James has 'the scornful' for 'mockers' there; similar idea.

Good to be exercised with a wholesome simplicity of spirit before the Lord. Cf. 2 Corinthians 11.3: "But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ."