Psaltaren - bön för människan

Abstract

The Psalms are human, too human in their expressions of thirst for revenge — but, remember the situation of those oppressed and do not judge them with the standards of those well established in an ordered society; human also in their joy for the good things of this life — and there is no other life. Death is the absolute end of a relationship — even with God — yet never accepted. In his claim for life without end and without any human reason from God, the Psalmist transcends the possibilities of his own view of life, commending himself in a trust to God — the Rock, the one firm foundation of his life, identical with his life in the end — in spite of any reasonable hope. In Divine Office we unite ourselves with mankind and every single individual in distress and joy and in each situation, as God united himself with mankind in Christ. We unite ourselves with his night of Gethsemane, his day of Golgotha, and the whole of salvation history. The Psalms have become engrammes in the deep structure of human existence with the Incarnation and the Passion.