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.
- 42:1
To the choirmaster. Song of the sons of Korah.
- 42:2
As a doe sighs for streams of water,
So my soul sighs after you, O God!
- 42:3
My soul is thirsty for God, for the living God:
When will I go and appear before the face of God?
- 42:4
My tears are my food day and night,
While I am constantly being told:
Where is your God?
- 42:5
I remember with heartfelt
When I walked surrounded by the crowd,
And that I walked at his head towards the house of God,
In the midst of shouts of joy and thanksgiving
Of a multitude in celebration.
- 42:6
Why are you falling down, my soul, and moaning inside me?
Hope in God, for I will praise him again;
He is my salvation and my God.
- 42:7
My soul is slain within me:
So it's you that I think of, from the land of the Jordan,
From Hermon, from Mitsear mountain.
- 42:8
A stream calls another stream to the sound of your showers;
All your waves and all your waves pass over me.
- 42:9
By day the Lord granted me his grace;
At night, I sang his praises,
I addressed a prayer to the God of my life.
- 42:10
I say to God, my rock:
Why are you forgetting me
Why do I have to walk in sadness,
Under the oppression of the enemy?
- 42:11
My bones break when my persecutors outrage me,
By telling me constantly:
Where is your God?
- 42:12
Why are you falling down, my soul, and moaning inside me?
Hope in God, for I will praise him again;
He is my salvation and my God.
