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Poetry and prayerPsalms 146:1–10
Psalm 146 is a song of praise that speaks to the singer’s own soul. It calls for praise, warns against trusting human rulers, and gives reasons to place hope in Yahweh instead.
Poetry and prayerPsalms 147:1–20
Psalm 147 is a song that begins and ends with praise. It says praising God is good, pleasant, and fitting, then traces reasons for praise in God’s care for people, his rule over creation, and his word to Israel.
Poetry and prayerPsalms 148:1–14
Psalm 148 is a praise song that calls the whole created order to honour Yahweh. It begins above, moves across the earth, includes every kind of person, and ends with praise from God’s people.
Poetry and prayerPsalms 149:1–9
Psalm 149 is a song of praise that calls God’s people to sing, rejoice, and honour him. It joins joyful worship with strong words about executing written judgment, so it should be read carefully as poetry.
Poetry and prayerPsalms 150:1–6
Psalm 150 is a short song that calls for praise to God. It moves from where praise is offered, to why God is praised, to the sounds and movement named in the song, ending with a call for everything with breath to praise Yah.
Poetry and prayerSong of Solomon 1:1–17
This song uses rich images to speak about love and attraction. The passage moves between voices that praise, ask, answer and admire.
Poetry and prayerSong of Solomon 2:1–17
Song of Solomon 2:1–17 is a poem of mutual admiration and desire. Its images of flowers, fruit, animals, seasons and vineyards help the speakers express love carefully, beautifully and with strong feeling.
Poetry and prayerSong of Solomon 3:1–5
This poem gives the words of a woman seeking the one she loves, first by night on her bed, then through the city, and finally ending with a careful charge about love.
Poetry and prayerSong of Solomon 3:6–11
This poem invites listeners to look at a royal wedding scene. The words use rich images of fragrance, strength, costly materials and joy, so we should read it as poetry that highlights honour, beauty and celebration.
Poetry and prayerSong of Solomon 4:1–16
This song speaks with rich pictures of beauty, fragrance and desire. It should be read as poetry, not expanded into extra story events.
Poetry and prayerSong of Solomon 5:1–16
Song of Solomon 5:1-16 is a poem of desire, loss, searching and praise. It uses rich images rather than plain description, so it helps to read it as poetry and song, noticing voices, repeated terms, emotions and comparisons.
Poetry and prayerSong of Solomon 6:1–13
This poem speaks in shifting voices that ask, answer and praise. Garden images, city names and bright comparisons express delight and belonging without turning the song into a story beyond what the passage itself says.
Poetry and prayerSong of Solomon 7:1–13
Song of Solomon 7:1-13 is a love poem in which the beloved is praised with rich comparisons drawn from beauty, fruitfulness and delight.
Poetry and prayerSong of Solomon 8:1–14
Song of Solomon 8:1–14 is poetry about love, desire, belonging, and commitment. Its images move from public affection to private closeness, then to strong statements about love’s power, family concerns, and a final invitation.
Poetry and prayerSirach 22:27–23:6
This prayer from Sirach asks God for help with words, thoughts, attitudes, and desires. It shows that harmful speech and inward sins are connected, and it asks for wise restraint before sin grows.
Catholic additional books
Poetry and prayerSirach 36:1–17
Sirach 36:1–17 is a communal prayer from the Catholic additional books. It asks God for mercy, judgement, restoration and public recognition, while remaining prayer language throughout rather than turning into a narrated event.
Catholic additional books
Poetry and prayerSirach 37:7–15
Sirach 37:7–15 offers prayer-shaped instruction about receiving advice. It warns that some counsellors serve themselves, urges care in choosing trusted people, values the heart’s counsel, and ends by telling the reader to ask the Most High for true direction.
Catholic additional books
Poetry and prayerSirach 38:1–15
Sirach 38:1–15 teaches that care in sickness is not divided between God and medicine. This passage honours physicians, recognises medicines and skill as the Lord’s gifts, and calls a sick person to prayer, repentance, offering and practical treatment.
Catholic additional books
Poetry and prayerSirach 45:23–26
This short passage in Sirach honours Phinehas, speaks about covenant and priestly inheritance, and ends with a prayer for wise leadership.
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Poetry and prayerIsaiah 5:1–7
Isaiah 5:1–7 is a song about a vineyard that becomes an explanation of God’s complaint against his people.
Poetry and prayerIsaiah 26:1–21
Isaiah 26:1 to 21 is a song of trust, waiting, confession and hope. As poetry, it uses strong pictures to contrast God’s peace and upright way with human pride, human failure and coming judgment.
Poetry and prayerIsaiah 38:9–22
This passage is Hezekiah’s own writing after sickness and recovery. He looks back on the fear of dying, remembers his cry to the Lord, and responds to restored life with praise, truth-telling, and worship.
Poetry and prayerIsaiah 42:10–17
Isaiah 42:10–17 is a poem calling many places and peoples to praise Yahweh. It moves from singing, to Yahweh acting with power, to Yahweh leading the blind, and ends with a warning about trusting idols.
Poetry and prayerIsaiah 63:15–19
This prayer speaks to God with urgency and grief. It asks God to look, remember his people, and act with mercy when they feel distant, defeated, and unlike the people who bear his name.
