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Psalm Twenty-five: Translation of the Song

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Translation by Rabbi Maccabi and Dr. Rosenberg of this Psalm is not yet available and will be uploaded once completed. The translations are as close to the literal Hebrew as possible. For the time being, available translated Psalms can be found on this page: Translations of the Psalms. Click here to study “Literary analysis of Psalm 25” …

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Literary analysis of Psalm 25 – “To You, O Lord, I will lift up my soul”

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Song 25 makes an intruder out of its reader or listener. The sense is of overhearing an intensely intimate prayer.* And yet, paradoxically, the frame of the song, that which determines its structure, is formal — each line begins, in Hebrew, with a letter of the alphabet, in their proper order. Perhaps the contradiction between …

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