Through the laws of Kabbalah, each of the 150 psalms were given what the ancients called a "Wonder of God." So, to obtain a grace from the Lord, it was not enough to sing the psalm indicated, it was also necessary to perform a "plus" that allowed to be in adequacy with the Lord ...

The oldest Psalms have 3 000 years! King David, singing and dancing for God, is considered their father. Prayer of the believing Jew, as was the case of Jesus himself, the Psalms express all the human feelings of man before God, they are a prayer of praise and supplication. And since then, there is not a single moment when, somewhere in the world, a Psalm is raised to God. And thus, for centuries and centuries, these incessant praises and miraculous supplications have been realized.

"O LORD, I call on you, come hurry to me! Give ear to my voice, when I call on you. May my prayer be before your face like incense "(Ps 141: 1-2). Since those early times, men have sought to enter into communication with God. The Psalms are therefore part of these means.

In time, codifications and methods of recitation were instituted. For example at present, the Universal Catholic Church uses in the liturgy 147 psalms on the 150 of the biblical book. Thus, at each office, the psalms are the body of the prayer of the Church, the raw material of the Liturgy of the Hours.

But leave that aside to look at how early Christians used these psalms with wonderful powers. This way, much less conventional than the Liturgy of the Hours, is strongly inspired by the Jewish tradition which itself is much more inclined to rites and rituals. Through the laws of Kabbalah, each of the 150 psalms were given what the elders called a "Wonder of God." Thus, to obtain a grace from the Lord, it was not enough to sing the psalm indicated, it was also necessary to perform a "plus" that allowed to be in adequacy with the Lord.

Psalm 056: Against school failure and confusion of ideas

Put yourself in the Justice of God: your life is written in his Book! But it sometimes happens that we doubt or that we are made to doubt, that is in us the confusion of ideas or senses. We must then turn to Heaven to find peace and harmony. When one thinks that one will fail in one's projects for lack of self-confidence, before writing an important letter or simply having clear ideas, we can recite this Psalm.

How to use this psalm?

- 56:1
To the Chief Musician. On <>.
Hymn of David. When the Philistines seized him at Gath.

- 56:2
Have mercy on me, O God! because men are harassing me;
All day they make war on me, they torment me.

- 56:3
All day my adversaries are harassing me;
They are many, they make me war like haughty.

- 56:4
When I'm in awe,
In you I trust.

- 56:5
I will boast in God, in His word;
I trust in God, I fear nothing:
What can men do to me?

- 56:6
They constantly violate my rights,
They only have bad thoughts about me.

- 56:7
They plot, they spy, they watch my tracks,
Because they want my life.

- 56:8
It is through iniquity that they hope to escape:
In your anger, O God, hasten the peoples!

- 56:9
You count the steps of my wandering life;
Collect my tears in your skin:
Are not they in your book?

- 56:10
My enemies recede, the day I cry;
I know that God is for me.

- 56:11
I will boast in God, in His word;
I will boast in the Lord, in his word;

- 56:12
I trust in God, I fear nothing:
What can men do to me?

- 56:13
O God! I must fulfill the wishes I made to you;
I will give you thanksgiving.

- 56:14
For you have delivered my soul from death,
You guaranteed my feet from falling,
That I may walk before God in the light of the living.