The Pericope Psalm 92: A Psalm Of Worship

The pericope Psalm 92 is a genre of thanksgiving and at the same time is a psalm of worship. Verses 1-4 are also occasionally vied as “more of a testimony and an encouragement for others to praise God.” The psalm is useful for “individual or congregational use, especially on the Sabbath Day.” There are some scholars who believe the “original context was perhaps that of thanksgiving after victory or a festival occasion.”
The author is unknown; although there are a number of scholarly ideas as to the penmanship of the passage. Psalm 92 can likely be contributed to the “monarchical period of pre-exilic Israelite history.” The speaker of this psalm should be considered a “royal figure,” although that is simply an assumption made by scholars. Although

As a song of praise and thanksgiving, this pericope also contains a “strong wisdom influence” as found in verses (9-11). Throughout the passage, people are praising God, rejoicing, receiving and receiving instruction. Psalm 92 operates within a complete boundary in terms of beginning with instruction on praising and giving thanks to God and ending with why we praise God. The verses in-between the beginning and the end of this passage explain what God has done, what God will do to those who are not faithful, and finally how God is in control and will take care of the non-righteous. Psalm 92 begins with praises to God. This particular psalm is considered a psalm for the Sabbath day and is the only psalm in the text of the Hebrew psalter that is authored and designed for use as a Sabbath psalm. The psalm walks the reader or worshiper through many steps of praising God. This psalm, which is “about the fate of the wicked and the righteous” and continues on to a “prophecy about the world to come when the wicked, now blooming like grass, will be destroyed, and the righteous will flourish like a palm tree.” Verses