This psalm purports also to be a psalm of Asaph. See Introduction to
Psalms 73. In the absence of any evidence to the contrary, it may be
assumed to have been composed by or for the Asaph who was the...
BOOK II. PSS. XLII.- LXXII.
Psalms 42-83 are Elohistic, _i.e._ they use the word God (Elohim) and
avoid the proper name Yahweh, probably from motives of reverence. Here
and there, however, the name Y...
The beginning of each month was marked by the blowing of the silver
trumpets (Numbers 10:10); but the first day of the month Ethânîm or
Tisri (Sept. Oct.), the seventh month of the ecclesiastical year...
LXXXI.
This is plainly a festival song, but by no means one of that jubilant
class of festival songs that conclude the Psalter. The poet is in the
truest sense a prophet, and, while calling on all the...
INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 81
TO THE CHIEF MUSICIAN UPON GITTITH, A [PSALM] OF ASAPH. Of "gittith",
Psalms 8:1. The Targum renders it,
"upon the harp which came from Gath;''
and so Jarchi says it was a...
_A.M. 2959. B.C. 1045._
It is not certain when, or by whom, this Psalm was composed; but it
seems evidently to have been intended for the use of the church in
their solemn feasts, and especially in t...