What is the most basic but essential thing about praise, the abc's? Not only does Psalm 111 tell us what that is, it teaches us how to practice it. Psalm 112 continues the theme that Psalm 111 ends on and shows us the blessings of praising and worshiping God.
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We are listening to Psalm 111 and considering Psalm 112 from Book 5 of the Psalms. In form and structure these two psalms are quite similar: both start the same with "Hallelu-Yah!", both are ten verses long, and both are Hebrew acrostics--poems where the first word of each line start with the letters of the alphabet, from "A to Z" (or aleph to taw). Further, the last verse of Psalm 111 provides the theme that Psalm 112 begins with.
Psalm 111 and 112 are wisdom psalms and contain themes and emphases that we find in the other wisdom books (Job, Ecclesiastes and especially Proverbs). A key verse that illustrates this is Psalm 111:10 "The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom." Psalm 112 in many ways echoes Psalm 1 and the entire book of Proverbs.
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