Psalm 123

The 123rd Psalm ( Greek- count of 122 ) is a Psalm from the fifth book of Psalms and belongs to the series of Pilgrimage songs with influences from the kind of Lamentations of an individual.

Structure

The psalm could be structured in the following way:

Comments

In Psalm a change from the "I " (v. 1) to "we" (verses 2-4) is observed. This " I " can be either identified with the "we" or the "I " we have to imagine a cantor.

Dating

Justus Olshausen dated the psalm generally to a time of need. Here one could think about the time of the Syrian repression, or simply to the location of a community in the diaspora ..

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