The verse you’ve just read on the home page is a psalm written by David.
Many scholars such as Rogers and others believe that David composed this Psalm as a shepherd boy. It is not difficult to envision David watching over his flock in the wilderness thinking of God’s omniscience, omnipresence and omnipotence and penning these beautiful words.
David is described by God ‘as a man after my own heart’. A man of numerous talents, his humility is evident to all here. It is no wonder he went on to become the greatest King in the Bible.
The Book of Psalms, Tehillim in Hebrew (תְּהִלִּים or תהילים meaning "Praises”), commonly referred to simply as Psalms or “the Psalms”, is the first book of the Ketuvim (“Writings”), the third section of the Hebrew Bible, and a book of the Christian Old Testament.
The title is derived from the Greek translation, ψαλμοί psalmoi, meaning “instrumental music” and, by extension, “the words accompanying the music.”
The book is an anthology of individual psalms, with 150 in the Jewish and Western Christian tradition and more in the Eastern Christian churches.
Many of the psalms are linked to the name of King David, although his authorship is not accepted by modern Bible scholars.
The Psalm title includes “To the chief musician.” The last time we found these words used as a title of a Psalm was in the 119th Psalm, which means that this Psalm was worthy to be used by the best of singers.
It was dedicated to the leader of the temple choir to be set to music, and it was sung in the worship of Jehovah. Aben Ezra says that this is the most glorious and excellent Psalm of them all.
It is divided into four stanzas of six verses each. Verses 1-6 deal with the omniscience of God; verses 7-12 speak of His omnipresence; verses 13-18 deal with His omnipotence, and then verses 19-24 deal with the prayer of David.