Almost half of the Psalms are headed " A Psalm of David ", although the phrase can also be translated as " to David " or " for David ", but no psalm can be attributed to David with certainty.

This form is more flexible in its use ; for example, it can be used as a count noun: " Most verses of the psalm have multiple readings.

If we read and understand this great psalm, we can redeem ourselves.

He also played organ at Philadelphia's Christ Church and composed or edited a number of hymns and psalms including: " A Collection of Psalm Tunes with a few Anthems and Hymns Some of them Entirely New, for the Use of the United Churches of Christ Church and St. Peter's Church in Philadelphia " ( 1763 ), " A psalm of thanksgiving, Adapted to the Solemnity of Easter: To be performed on Sunday, the 30th of March, 1766, at Christ Church, Philadelphia " ( 1766 ), and " The Psalms of David, with the Ten Commandments, Creed, Lord's Prayer, & c. in Metre " ( 1767 ).

Let Marcion then exhibit, as gifts of his god, some prophets, such as have not spoken by human sense, but with the Spirit of God, such as have both predicted things to come, and have made manifest the secrets of the heart ; let him produce a psalm, a vision, a prayer -- only let it be by the Spirit, in an ecstasy, that is, in a rapture, whenever an interpretation of tongues has occurred to him ; let him show to me also, that any woman of boastful tongue in his community has ever prophesied from amongst those specially holy sisters of his.

It is a psalm that is prescribed for Christmas Day and also to be read at morning prayer on the fourth day of the month.

It is notable that although many other traditions avoid using the poem " Anim Zemiroth " on the Sabbath, for fear that its holiness would be less appreciated due to the frequency of the Sabbath, the poem is usually sung by Ashkenazi congregations before concluding the Sabbath Musaf service with the daily psalm.

This allows the performers to tailor the music according to the available instrumental forces and the occasion of the performance ( the particular feast day's liturgy would have included suggested antiphons that could be chanted before Monteverdi's psalm settings ).

The hymn may then be defined as a metrical or rhythmical praise of God ; and the psalm, accompanied sacred song or canticle, either taken from the Psalms or from some less authoritative source ( St. Augustine declaring that a canticle may be without a psalm but not a psalm without a canticle ).

He wrote motets, psalm settings, madrigals, as well as some of the earliest compositions to be called " cantata.

In comparison to the Hebrew text Sanders regards the Greek text of this psalm to be in places “ desiccated ”, “ meaningless ”, “ truncated ”, “ ridiculous ”, “ absurd ”, “ jumbled ”, and “ disappointingly different ”, all this the result of its having been “ made from a truncated amalgamation of the two Hebrew psalms ”.

In these cases the psalm verses and their stichera will be chanted ( sung ).

In the Roman Catholic Church this psalm may be assigned by a priest to a penitent as a penance after Confession.

This will usually be sung just before the psalm ( s ) or immediately before the first canticle and may be sung by the choir alone.

* Credidi propter quod locutus sum, a psalm setting for solo alto, strings and continuo, which appears likely to be a unique example of Legrenzi's own hand, as there is evidence that it is an autograph.

For example, the sociological setting of a law is a court, or the sociological setting of a psalm of praise ( hymn ) is a worship context, or that of a proverb might be a father-to-son admonition.

* a psalm, or two short psalms ; The psalms of Sunday-Psalm 90 / 91 or 4 & 133 / 134-may always be used as an alternative to the psalm ( s ) appointed on weekdays

In a psalm of David that appears in 2 Samuel 22: 11 and Psalms 18: 10, David said that the " rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind.

Mark Smith referring to this same Psalm states in “ God in Translation :...” “ This psalm presents a scene of the gods meeting together in divine council ... Elohim stands in the council of El.

At first the president of the local church ( bishop ) or the leader of the choir chose a particular psalm as he thought appropriate.

This particular psalm constitutes an exorcism, which not a few scholars have argued is based on an actual ritual of exorcism that was carried out in the days of the author.

Each reading is followed by a psalm and a prayer relating what has been read in the Old Testament to the Mystery of Christ.

OHG has skalsang " song of praise, psalm ".

When you assemble, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation.

The funeral now includes an optional penitential section, no longer has a required psalm and includes set intercessions.

The Armenian Rite, which has kept the older arrangement of three lessons, includes between each a fragment called the Saghmos Jashu ( Psalm of dinnertime ) and the Mesedi ( mesodion ), again a verse or two from a psalm.

The present Ambrosian Rite sometimes has a Prophecy before the Epistle, in which case there follows the Psalmellus, two or three verses from a psalm, which corresponds to the Gradual.

The Mozarabic Rite has three lessons, with a psalm ( Psallendo ) sung between the first two.

Perpetual adoration of God by psalm and prayer has been a tradition among Christians since ancient times, e. g. in Eastern Christianity since the year 400 the Acoemetae monks kept up a divine service day and night and in Western Christianity the monks at the monastery of Agaunum performed perpetual prayers since its formation in 522 by King Sigismund.

The change to this manner of singing the psalm has been attributed to Pope Celestine I ( 422-432 ).

Each reading is followed by a psalm or biblical canticle ( i. e., Psalm 10, Exodus 15: 1-18, Psalm 30, Isaiah 12: 2-6, Psalm 19, Psalm 42 & 43 ) sung responsorially and a prayer relating what has been read in the Old Testament to the Mystery of Christ.

Each mode has its own associated psalm tone, whose primary pitch is variously called the dominant, tenor, or tuba.

Each psalm tone has a formulaic intonation, mediant ( or mediation ), and termination ( or ending ).

In the context of its vespers / vigil setting, this psalm is understood to be a hymn of creation, in all the fulness wherein God has created it-it speaks of animals, plants, waters, skies, etc.

[...] he scene, and more than once the enthusiasm of psalm singing, has risen in my remembrance, especially in describing the Covenanters in Ringan Gilhaize.

Thus literate lay defendants often also claimed the right to benefit of clergy ; furthermore, as the Biblical passage used for the literacy test was always Psalm 51 ( Miserere mei, Deus ...-" O God, have mercy upon me ..."), an illiterate person who had memorized the psalm could also claim benefit of clergy.

At the evening service there is a selection of from four to seven psalms, varying with the day of the week, and also a Shuraya, or short psalm, with generally a portion of Psalm 118, varying with the day of the fortnight.

Its psalter — an inclusive-language revision of the psalter from the 1979 American Book of Common Prayer — also includes a collect for each psalm.

The pope also mentions ( in paragraph 26 ) Psalms 132, a liturgical psalm commemorating the return of the Ark of God to Jerusalem < ref >

Scalpay is also home to many great Gaelic singers and psalm presenters and is well known for its use in Gaidhlig.

Tye's Latin church music includes psalm settings and masses — notably one based on the song " The Western Wynde " ( also the basis of masses by John Taverner and John Sheppard ).

The psalm " Deus, Deus meus " ( Ps 62 Vulgate ) is also repeated daily.

He also wrote sacred choral music, including Tenebrae responsories for use during Easter and a psalm setting, all of which show a dignified and restrained approach, much in keeping with the Neapolitan style for liturgical music, and reflective of the work of the brothers Anerio and Gesualdo.

Donato also wrote madrigals in a more serious style, as well as psalm settings, motets, and ceremonial music.

* The entire psalm is recited in the Arizal's rite of the bedtime Shema on weekdays, and is also part of the regular tikkun chatzot prayers.

He also wrote psalm settings, and " sacred concertos " in the concertato style — one of the most distinctive forms of the Italian early Baroque.

He also composed cantatas and organ pieces, as well as the hymn tune Alberta ( often used for the words Lead, Kindly Light ), and various Anglican psalm chants.

The psalm verse and Gloria Patri ( Doxology ) which are sung as part of the Introit ( and optionally the Communion antiphon ) of the Mass and of the greater responsories of the Office of Readings ( Matins ) and the reformed offices of Lauds and Vespers are also sung to similar sets of reciting tones that depend on the musical mode.

The psalm is also chanted with special solemnity at Orthodox funeral services and on the various All-Souls Days occurring throughout the year, with " Alleluia " chanted between each verse.

He also composed psalm chants, hymn tunes, and a cantata, The Prodigal Son, for choir and chamber orchestra.

He also compiled chants and psalm texts to make the St. Paul Cathedral Psalter.

# The invocations beginning " Avinu Malkeinu " ( Our Father, our King ) are read in the morning and afternoon services of the Ten Days, except on the Sabbath, Friday afternoons, and the 9th of Tishrei, the eve of the Day of Atonement, which is a sort of semi-holy day, and on which the penitential psalm with all its incidents is also omitted.

This psalm extant in Syriac and also was found in the Dead Sea scroll 11QPs ( a ) 155 ( said also 11Q5 ), a first-century CE Hebrew manuscript.