Psalms

The Psalter is Israel’s hymnbook: lament, praise, thanksgiving, royal psalms, and wisdom. It trains the heart to speak to God in trouble and in joy, and it points ahead to the Messiah.

Author: David and others
Date: c. 1400–400 BC
Theme: Prayers and songs for every season of the life of faith.
Key verses: Psalm 23; Psalm 51; Psalm 119:105
Clementine Vulgate

Psalms 86

1Filiis Core. Psalmus cantici. [Fundamenta ejus in montibus sanctis; 2diligit Dominus portas Sion super omnia tabernacula Jacob. 3Gloriosa dicta sunt de te, civitas Dei! 4Memor ero Rahab et Babylonis, scientium me; ecce alienigen, et Tyrus, et populus thiopum, hi fuerunt illic. 5Numquid Sion dicet: Homo et homo natus est in ea, et ipse fundavit eam Altissimus? 6Dominus narrabit in scripturis populorum et principum, horum qui fuerunt in ea. 7Sicut ltantium omnium habitatio est in te.]

Clementine Vulgate (1592). Public domain or openly licensed historic text.