| Psalm 138 | |
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| "I will praise thee with my whole heart" | |
| Hymn psalm | |
 The beginning of Psalm 138, Hymne d'action de grâce, folio 84 of Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry, musée Condé, ms.65. The miniature represents a religious spraying holy water on a dignitary who had just entered his church. | |
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| Language | Hebrew (original) |
Psalm 138 is the 138th psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "I will praise thee with my whole heart". In Latin, it is known as "Confitebor tibi Domine in toto corde meo".[1] The psalm is a hymn psalm.[2]
In the slightly different numbering system used in the Greek Septuagint version of the Bible and in the Latin Vulgate, this psalm is Psalm 137.
The psalm forms a regular part of Jewish, Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant liturgies. It has often been set to music, by composers including Claudio Monteverdi, Heinrich Schütz, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Michel Richard Delalande, Jan Dismas Zelenka, Josef Rheinberger and Stefans Grové.
- ^ Parallel Latin/English Psalter / Psalmus 137 (138) Archived 2017-05-07 at the Wayback Machine medievalist.net
- ^ Pankhurst 2018.