Psalms 23, 42, 51, 137... Songs and Songs (And you thought artist made them up!)

Since there were 4 completely different chapters, I decided to break them up and introduce them to you one by one:

Psalms 23:

What I noticed in this chapter was that someone seemed to be devoting themselves to god by saying things like: "The LORD is my shepherd"(Psalms, 23:1) or "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever."(Psalms, 23:1)

As I was reading this. I thought to myself that these words were words that would go into a punk song or something, words wit a lot of meaning and sentimental value; maybe an emo song.

Psalms 42:

In this particular chapter I could really relate with the message it was trying to get across, because as the character I wonder sometimes about God and if he is really present, this is seen clearly here: “Where is thy God? ... Why hast thou forgotten me.”(Psalms 42:3,9) And although you may wonder sometimes where God is, never doubt his presence; not even when you are passing through rough times and you may feel he is not there, because he is there and he knows what is best for you.

Psalms 51:

In this chapter we can see someone that is repenting, maybe from a bad devision that person took, maybe we are dealing with a sinner. We do in fact, see a lot of beggin and praying toward god: " Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions." (Psalms 51:1)

Then we can see that the person offers different sacrifices in order to be forgiven; what do you think he did that he was so repented?, these are his offerings: Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar. (Psalms 51:19)

Psalms 137:

we are introduced now to a magical place, a sacred place, a place which is: Babylon. we know it is important because they say: "How shall we sing the LORD's song in a strange land?" (Psalms 137:4) Which means that the only place to sing the lords songs is in Babylon. This chapter reminded me of many things: First, it reminded me of the hanging gardens of Babylon.



The other thing it reminded me of was the song: By the rivers of Babylon. The reason I remembered this song was because of the first sentence in this chapter: "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion." If you listen to the beginning of the song you will see that they are identical, to listen to it click on the link below.

Babylon