All About Psalms

Table of Contents

The 5 Sections of Book of Psalms
Terms to Know
Headers
Key People
Types of Psalms

The 5 Sections of Book of Psalms

Book 1: Psalms 1–41

Book 2: Psalms 42–72

Book 3: Psalms 73–89

Book 4: Psalms 90–106

Book 5: Psalms 107–150

Historical Psalms

Psalm 7

Psalm 18

Psalm 30

Psalm 34

Psalm 51

Psalm 54

Psalm 56

Psalm 57

Psalm 59

Psalm 60

Psalm 63

(Psalm 90)

(Psalm 102)

Psalm 142

Terms to Know

Phrase or Term	Meaning
According to… • Alamoth • The Doe of the Dawn • The Dove on Far-Off Terebinths • Do Not Destroy • The Gittith • Jeduthun • Muth-Labben • Shushan Eduth	>
Ascents
The Choirmaster
For… • Giving Thanks • Instruction • The Flutes • The Memorial Offering • The Sabbath
Prayer
Psalm
Selah
Shiggaion
Song
Stringed Instruments
Testimony

Headers

116 of the 150 Psalms have headers. In some traditions, the header is counted as that chapter’s first verse, but in others they are unnumbered. Either way, the headers are considered part of Holy Scripture.

Psalm	Title
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2
3	A PSALM OF DAVID, WHEN HE FLED FROM ABSALOM HIS SON.
4	TO THE CHOIRMASTER: WITH STRINGED INSTRUMENTS. A PSALM OF DAVID.
5	TO THE CHOIRMASTER: FOR THE FLUTES. A PSALM OF DAVID.
6	TO THE CHOIRMASTER: WITH STRINGED INSTRUMENTS; ACCORDING TO THE SHEMINITH. A PSALM OF DAVID.
7	A SHIGGAION OF DAVID, WHICH HE SANG TO THE LORD CONCERNING THE WORDS OF CUSH, A BENJAMINITE.
8	TO THE CHOIRMASTER: ACCORDING TO THE GITTITH. A PSALM OF DAVID.
9	TO THE CHOIRMASTER: ACCORDING TO MUTH-LABBEN. A PSALM OF DAVID.
10
11	TO THE CHOIRMASTER. OF DAVID.
12	TO THE CHOIRMASTER: ACCORDING TO THE SHEMINITH. A PSALM OF DAVID.
13	TO THE CHOIRMASTER. A PSALM OF DAVID.
14	TO THE CHOIRMASTER. OF DAVID.
15	A PSALM OF DAVID.
16	A MIKTAM OF DAVID.
17	A PRAYER OF DAVID.
18	TO THE CHOIRMASTER. A PSALM OF DAVID, THE SERVANT OF THE LORD, WHO ADDRESSED THE WORDS OF THIS SONG TO THE LORD ON THE DAY WHEN THE LORD DELIVERED HIM FROM THE HAND OF ALL HIS ENEMIES, AND FROM THE HAND OF SAUL. HE SAID:
19	TO THE CHOIRMASTER. A PSALM OF DAVID.
20	TO THE CHOIRMASTER. A PSALM OF DAVID.
21	TO THE CHOIRMASTER. A PSALM OF DAVID.
22	TO THE CHOIRMASTER: ACCORDING TO THE DOE OF THE DAWN. A PSALM OF DAVID.
23	A PSALM OF DAVID.
24	A PSALM OF DAVID.
25	OF DAVID.
26	OF DAVID.
27	OF DAVID.
28	OF DAVID.
29	A PSALM OF DAVID.
30	A PSALM OF DAVID. A SONG AT THE DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE.
31	TO THE CHOIRMASTER. A PSALM OF DAVID.
32	A MASKIL OF DAVID.
33
34	OF DAVID, WHEN HE CHANGED HIS BEHAVIOR BEFORE ABIMELECH, SO THAT HE DROVE HIM OUT, AND HE WENT AWAY.
35	OF DAVID.
36	TO THE CHOIRMASTER. OF DAVID, THE SERVANT OF THE LORD.
37	OF DAVID.
38	A PSALM OF DAVID, FOR THE MEMORIAL OFFERING.
39	TO THE CHOIRMASTER: TO JEDUTHUN. A PSALM OF DAVID.
40	TO THE CHOIRMASTER. A PSALM OF DAVID.
41	TO THE CHOIRMASTER. A PSALM OF DAVID.
42	TO THE CHOIRMASTER. A MASKIL OF THE SONS OF KORAH.
43
44	TO THE CHOIRMASTER. A MASKIL OF THE SONS OF KORAH.
45	TO THE CHOIRMASTER: ACCORDING TO LILIES. A MASKIL OF THE SONS OF KORAH; A LOVE SONG.
46	TO THE CHOIRMASTER. OF THE SONS OF KORAH. ACCORDING TO ALAMOTH. A SONG.
47	TO THE CHOIRMASTER. A PSALM OF THE SONS OF KORAH.
48	A SONG. A PSALM OF THE SONS OF KORAH.
49	TO THE CHOIRMASTER. A PSALM OF THE SONS OF KORAH.
50	A PSALM OF ASAPH.
51	TO THE CHOIRMASTER. A PSALM OF DAVID, WHEN NATHAN THE PROPHET WENT TO HIM, AFTER HE HAD GONE IN TO BATHSHEBA.
52	TO THE CHOIRMASTER. A MASKIL OF DAVID, WHEN DOEG, THE EDOMITE, CAME AND TOLD SAUL, “DAVID HAS COME TO THE HOUSE OF AHIMELECH.”
53	TO THE CHOIRMASTER: ACCORDING TO MAHALATH. A MASKIL OF DAVID.
54	TO THE CHOIRMASTER: WITH STRINGED INSTRUMENTS. A MASKIL OF DAVID, WHEN THE ZIPHITES WENT AND TOLD SAUL, “IS NOT DAVID HIDING AMONG US?”
55	TO THE CHOIRMASTER: WITH STRINGED INSTRUMENTS. A MASKIL OF DAVID.
56	TO THE CHOIRMASTER: ACCORDING TO THE DOVE ON FAR-OFF TEREBINTHS. A MIKTAM OF DAVID, WHEN THE PHILISTINES SEIZED HIM IN GATH.
57	TO THE CHOIRMASTER: ACCORDING TO DO NOT DESTROY. A MIKTAM OF DAVID, WHEN HE FLED FROM SAUL, IN THE CAVE.
58	TO THE CHOIRMASTER: ACCORDING TO DO NOT DESTROY. A MIKTAM OF DAVID.
59	TO THE CHOIRMASTER: ACCORDING TO DO NOT DESTROY. A MIKTAM OF DAVID, WHEN SAUL SENT MEN TO WATCH HIS HOUSE IN ORDER TO KILL HIM.
60	TO THE CHOIRMASTER: ACCORDING TO SHUSHAN EDUTH. A MIKTAM OF DAVID; FOR INSTRUCTION; WHEN HE STROVE WITH ARAM-NAHARAIM AND WITH ARAM-ZOBAH, AND WHEN JOAB ON HIS RETURN STRUCK DOWN TWELVE THOUSAND OF EDOM IN THE VALLEY OF SALT.
61	TO THE CHOIRMASTER: WITH STRINGED INSTRUMENTS. OF DAVID.
62	TO THE CHOIRMASTER: ACCORDING TO JEDUTHUN. A PSALM OF DAVID.
63	A PSALM OF DAVID, WHEN HE WAS IN THE WILDERNESS OF JUDAH.
64	TO THE CHOIRMASTER. A PSALM OF DAVID.
65	TO THE CHOIRMASTER. A PSALM OF DAVID. A SONG.
66	TO THE CHOIRMASTER. A SONG. A PSALM.
67	TO THE CHOIRMASTER: WITH STRINGED INSTRUMENTS. A PSALM. A SONG.
68	TO THE CHOIRMASTER. A PSALM OF DAVID. A SONG.
69	TO THE CHOIRMASTER: ACCORDING TO LILIES. OF DAVID.
70	TO THE CHOIRMASTER. OF DAVID, FOR THE MEMORIAL OFFERING.
71
72	OF SOLOMON.
73	A PSALM OF ASAPH.
74	A MASKIL OF ASAPH.
75	TO THE CHOIRMASTER: ACCORDING TO DO NOT DESTROY. A PSALM OF ASAPH. A SONG.
76	TO THE CHOIRMASTER: WITH STRINGED INSTRUMENTS. A PSALM OF ASAPH. A SONG.
77	TO THE CHOIRMASTER: ACCORDING TO JEDUTHUN. A PSALM OF ASAPH.
78	A MASKIL OF ASAPH.
79	A PSALM OF ASAPH.
80	TO THE CHOIRMASTER: ACCORDING TO LILIES. A TESTIMONY. OF ASAPH, A PSALM.
81	TO THE CHOIRMASTER: ACCORDING TO THE GITTITH. OF ASAPH.
82	A PSALM OF ASAPH.
83	A SONG. A PSALM OF ASAPH.
84	TO THE CHOIRMASTER: ACCORDING TO THE GITTITH. A PSALM OF THE SONS OF KORAH.
85	TO THE CHOIRMASTER. A PSALM OF THE SONS OF KORAH.
86	A PRAYER OF DAVID.
87	A PSALM OF THE SONS OF KORAH. A SONG.
88	A SONG. A PSALM OF THE SONS OF KORAH. TO THE CHOIRMASTER: ACCORDING TO MAHALATH LEANNOTH. A MASKIL OF HEMAN THE EZRAHITE.
89	A MASKIL OF ETHAN THE EZRAHITE.
90	A PRAYER OF MOSES, THE MAN OF GOD.
91
92	A PSALM. A SONG FOR THE SABBATH.
93
94
95
96
97
98	A PSALM.
99
100	A PSALM FOR GIVING THANKS.
101	A PSALM OF DAVID.
102	A PRAYER OF ONE AFFLICTED, WHEN HE IS FAINT AND POURS OUT HIS COMPLAINT BEFORE THE LORD.
103	OF DAVID.
104
105
106
107
108	A SONG. A PSALM OF DAVID.
109	TO THE CHOIRMASTER. A PSALM OF DAVID.
110	A PSALM OF DAVID.
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119	Acrostic
120	A SONG OF ASCENTS.
121	A SONG OF ASCENTS.
122	A SONG OF ASCENTS. OF DAVID.
123	A SONG OF ASCENTS.
124	A SONG OF ASCENTS. OF DAVID.
125	A SONG OF ASCENTS.
126	A SONG OF ASCENTS.
127	A SONG OF ASCENTS. OF SOLOMON.
128	A SONG OF ASCENTS.
129	A SONG OF ASCENTS.
130	A SONG OF ASCENTS.
131	A SONG OF ASCENTS. OF DAVID.
132	A SONG OF ASCENTS.
133	A SONG OF ASCENTS. OF DAVID.
134	A SONG OF ASCENTS.
135
136
137
138	OF DAVID.
139	TO THE CHOIRMASTER. A PSALM OF DAVID.
140	TO THE CHOIRMASTER. A PSALM OF DAVID.
141	A PSALM OF DAVID.
142	A MASKIL OF DAVID, WHEN HE WAS IN THE CAVE. A PRAYER.
143	A PSALM OF DAVID.
144	OF DAVID.
145	A SONG OF PRAISE. OF DAVID.
146
147
148
149
150