The three sub-categories in the Hymn psalms are Psalm of Praise (e.g., Psalms 8, 100), Psalm of Thanksgiving (e.g., Psalms 30, 138), and Psalm of Confidence (e.g., Psalms 23, 27).
Exodus
King David wrote the book of Psalms. Many of the Psalms are incorportated into the daily and sabbath prayers.
Exodus
psalms, isaiah,and jeremiah
prophet, priest, king
AnswerKings David and Solomon are traditionally credited with writing the majority of the psalms. However, scholars say this attribution is unlikely to be true. They say that the psalms were a literary genre unknown at the time of David and Solomon, and that the psalms were actually written over a period of more than two hundred years, during and after the Babylonian Exile.
1) Psalms 23 and 121 are similar to each other. Each is speaking of God's protection and help. The connection to Psalms 137 is that 137:7 is in effect asking for God's intervention. All three mention (23:4) or allude to (121:7) bad circumstances.
There are 150 psalms in the Bible. The Book of Psalms consists of 150 psalms
Scholars generally believe that the Psalms were written by anonymous authors around the middle of the first millennium BCE, long after the time attributed to David. However, a majority of the Psalms are traditionally attributed to David.ADDITIONALLYMany of the Psalms themselves include the name of David as being the writer composer. For example, at the end of the fourth Psalm, it says in many translations: "To the director for Ne´hi·loth. A melody of David."
The first subcategory is General Hyms of Praise. The second and third subcategories are Hyms of the Lord's Kingship and Songs of Zion.
Psalms is regarded as poetry. Some of them are songs while others are prayers