Psalm_41__An_Indepth_Look

Psalm 41: An Indepth Look God’s Mercy: Asked and Delivered Throughout the Bible there is a continuous theme of God’s mercy bestowed upon his people. A perfect illustration of this overlying theme is Psalm 41. This psalm is a prayer of God’s compassion for those when they are feeling sick or abandoned. Psalm 41 gives the story of psalm’s plea for God’s mercy and the deliverance he receives from God’s blessings. The structure of psalm 41 is made up of four different parts. The first part begins with verse 2 and goes through to 4. These introductory three verses help to reveal to its readers that the Psalm is a giving praise to Yahweh for the blessings he has bestowed to his faithful. (It is these beginning three verses of God’s love that helps its readers to understand that this has been based on a previous experience of the mercy of God.) The second section of this psalm begins with verse 5 and goes until verse 11. In verse 5, the psalmist begins with the story of why he is giving thanks by giving his initial plea to the Lord, “Once I prayed, ‘Lord, have mercy on me; heal psalm, god, verse, mercy, enemies, god’s, author, verses, three, lord, 41, worst, been, about, second, people, first, very, two, story, states, psalmist, over, name, language, gives, doxology, yahweh, words, word, time, tells, psalms, praise, point