Psalms and Selected Canticles

William Flewelling

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The Book of Psalms in the Bible attracts a great deal of devotional attention from many people, including this author. This attention turned in the Spring of 1993 toward a project of translating the Psalter from the original Hebrew. This was as a spiritual as well as scholarly task for me. The end product, with a few other Hebrew poems added to the collection, came complete in the Spring of 1994. In the late summer of 2022, I took to revisiting my work, revising and correcting it as I found it necessary, and brought to this format in the late Autumn of the same year. I had sought to provide a translation in the immediacy of the present tense, as free as I could manage of the generic masculine, and as lively as I could manage to formulate. I wanted to convey the energy of spirit and of devotion that I felt in the text as I had engaged it. As I brought my revisitation to a conclusion, I felt I had achieved what I had hoped and wished to share it all with what readers I may accumulate, hopefully you.

Sujets

• Inspirational
• Philosophie et théologie
• Religión
• Psalms
• Religion

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• Publié par: AuthorHouse
• Date de parution: 21 décembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781665578301
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Psalms AND Selected Canticles
translated from the Hebrew
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
WILLIAM FLEWELLING
 
 
 
 

 
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Contents
Foreword
 
Psalm 1
Psalm 2
Psalm 3
Psalm 4
Psalm 5
Psalm 6
Psalm 7
Psalm 8
Psalm 9
Psalm 10
Psalm 11
Psalm 12
Psalm 13
Psalm 14
Psalm 15
Psalm 16
Psalm 17
Psalm 18
Psalm 19
Psalm 20
Psalm 21
Psalm 22
Psalm 23
Psalm 24
Psalm 25
Psalm 26
Psalm 27
Psalm 28
Psalm 29
Psalm 30
Psalm 31
Psalm 32
Psalm 33
Psalm 34
Psalm 35
Psalm 36
Psalm 37
Psalm 38
Psalm 39
Psalm 40
Psalm 41
Psalm 42
Psalm 43
Psalm 44
Psalm 45
Psalm 46
Psalm 47
Psalm 48
Psalm 49
Psalm 50
Psalm 51
Psalm 52
Psalm 53
Psalm 54
Psalm 55
Psalm 56
Psalm 57
Psalm 58
Psalm 59
Psalm 60
Psalm 61
Psalm 62
Psalm 63
Psalm 64
Psalm 65
Psalm 66
Psalm 67
Psalm 68
Psalm 69
Psalm 70
Psalm 71
Psalm 72
Psalm 73
Psalm 74
Psalm 75
Psalm 76
Psalm 77
Psalm 78
Psalm 79
Psalm 80
Psalm 81
Psalm 82
Psalm 83
Psalm 84
Psalm 85
Psalm 86
Psalm 87
Psalm 88
Psalm 89
Psalm 90
Psalm 91
Psalm 92
Psalm 93
Psalm 94
Psalm 95
Psalm 96
Psalm 97
Psalm 98
Psalm 99
Psalm 100
Psalm 101
Psalm 102
Psalm 103
Psalm 104
Psalm 105
Psalm 106
Psalm 107
Psalm 108
Psalm 109
Psalm 110
Psalm 111
Psalm 112
Psalm 113
Psalm 114
Psalm 115
Psalm 116
Psalm 117
Psalm 118
Psalm 119
Psalm 120
Psalm 121
Psalm 122
Psalm 123
Psalm 124
Psalm 125
Psalm 126
Psalm 127
Psalm 128
Psalm 129
Psalm 130
Psalm 131
Psalm 132
Psalm 133
Psalm 134
Psalm 135
Psalm 136
Psalm 137
Psalm 138
Psalm 139
Psalm 140
Psalm 141
Psalm 142
Psalm 143
Psalm 144
Psalm 145
Psalm 146
Psalm 147
Psalm 148
Psalm 149
Psalm 150
Canticles
Psalm of Habakkuk Habakkuk 3
Song of Jonah Jonah 2:2-9
Song of Hannah 1 Samuel 2:1-10
Song of Miriam/Song of Moses Exodus 15:1-18
Lament of David 2 Samuel 1:19-27
Song of the Vineyard Isaiah 5:1-7
Song of the Feasting Isaiah 25:6-9
Song of Return Isaiah 40:9-11
Prayer of Hezekiah 2 Chronicles 30:18d-19
The Last Words Of David 2 Samuel 23:1-7
The First Servant Son Isaiah 42:1-4
The Second Servant Son Isaiah 49:1-6
The Third Servant Son Isaiah 50:4-11
The Fourth Servant Son Isaiah 52:13 – 53:12
A Song Of Trust Jeremiah 17:5-10
The Second Song Of Moses Deuteronomy 32:1-43
 
About the Author
Foreword
In the Spring of 1993, the interest is translating the Psalms rose to mind, partly as an exercise to enhance my skills at Hebrew vis-à-vis the Old Testament work I routinely did in my preaching work. I began with Psalm 1 and proceeded. Once I finished the 150 canonical Psalms, I moved on to texts of poetry and particular spiritual use: the Selected Canticles taken from the various books of the Hebrew Bible.
At the opening of the original collection, now only in a hard copy format, I offered the following Note, repeated here as a clear statement of what the translation was intended to accomplish, and the sources used in the work.
These Psalms and Canticles are translated under the desire to accomplish a handful of goals. (1) To work on my Hebrew; (2) to take the Psalter and related pieces as a devotional guide and the translation as a devotional tool; (3) to come up with an inclusive language translation which (4) reads with a cadence and with “devotional power”. It is hoped that the results satisfy the latter two reasonably well; the former two are personally enriching for me.
The Psalm texts are translated from the BIBLIA HEBRAICA STUTTGARTESIA, LIBER PSALMORUM (BHS), Deutsche Bibelstifftung Stuttgart. Brown, Driver, and Briggs’ Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament , Oxford University Press, London, 1972 was my constant companion. I consulted Mitchell Dahood’s Commentary on the Psalms, three volumes in the Anchor Bible Commentary series throughout the effort. I also referred to Hans-Joachim Kraus two volume Commentary on the Psalms, published by Augsburg Publishing House, Minneapolis. Decisions, of course, are in the end my own.
For the Canticles, the text used was BHS for The Song of Habakkuk and The Song of Jonah and Rudolph Kittle’s Bibica Hebraica for the rest. Use was made of Theodore Hiebert’s God of my Vision , the Anchor Bible commentaries on Jonah by Jack M. Sasson, 1 Samuel and 2 Samuel by P. Kyle McCaeter, plus Frank Moore Cross’s Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic and Brevard Child’s The Book of Exodus .
I chose to translate in the present tense so as to reflect the intimate sense of living with the Psalms and Canticles. In doing that I contemporize both historical references and future promises on the part of God and on the part of the Psalmist or one praying the text. I also chose to avoid as much as possible the generic masculine. If the reference ‘he’ is to God, I simply use God. I circumvent the use of unidentified masculine figures, leaving references to David, for example in Psalm 132 and the all too ubiquitous Servant of Yahweh in the Fourth Servant Song from Isaiah. I further attempted to reflect the energy I felt in the Hebrew text.
I found the work satisfying in the original 1993-94 effort. I found it once again satisfying in this 2022 revisiting and, where necessary, correcting of the translation. I hope the reader finds it satisfying as well.
William Flewelling
Psalm 1
1
Happy!

that one walking not in the counsel of the wicked,

nor standing in the way of sinners,

nor sitting in the seat of scoffers;
2
but personal delight is in the teaching of Yahweh

and musing