Psalms is a book of the Bible in the Old Testament. It contains
150 songs, poems, and prayers (psalms) written in praise to God.
David is credited to have written 73 of these psalms. However,
since 48 Psalms are considered anonymous it is unclear if this
is all that he wrote. Other authors were the sons of Korah,
Asaph, and Solomon, among others. The book of Psalms is arranged
into five smaller books. This is similar to the structure of the
Pentateuch (or Torah) which also contains five books. |Book
one||Psalms 1-41| |Book Two||Psalms 42-72| |Book Three||Psalms
73-89| |Book Four||Psalms 90-106| |Book Five||Psalms 107-150|
The Psalms have an important role in prophecy and quotations in
the New Testament. When Jesus is on the cross, he quotes Psalm
22. In Christian circles Psalm 22 is often regarded as a Psalm
that foreshadows the future suffering of Jesus. The Hebrew “Book
of Praises” is the oldest song-book still in use. The term,
“psalm” is from the Greek for striking or plucking and came to
mean a song acco