Category: Psalms Group

These materials were shared with the Psalms Group, a fellowship group with a special interest in learning about, reading and praying the Psalms daily.

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Psalms 42-43: A Psalm of Myself in Despair and Hope

Psalms 42 and 43 are usually treated as one psalm because:

  1. Psalm 43 doesn’t have a superscription;
  2. the refrain is repeated three times in 42:5, 11, and 43:5;  
  3. the thought develops from remembrance to a specific hope
  4. the 2 poems form a typical psalm of lament with several elements of the lament form.
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