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
English Revised Version

Psalms 76

1In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel. 2In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion. 3There he brake the arrows of the bow; the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah 4Glorious art thou and excellent, from the mountains of prey. 5The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep; and none of the men of might have found their hands. 6At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep. 7Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry? 8Thou didst cause sentence to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still, 9When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah 10Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the residue of wrath shalt thou gird upon thee. 11Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared. 12He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.

English Revised Version (1885). Public domain. The 1881/1885 British revision of the King James Version; parent of the ASV.