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The perfect prayer book is what “Psalms” has been called. Written over a period of about eight hundred years (probably from about 1000 BC to 167 BC), these one hundred fifty poems and hymns are the most important existing collection of Hebrew national and religious poetry.
The Psalms are timeless in their summation of human emotion. In them we find Psalms of praise, Psalms of rejoicing, Psalms which are pleas for help, Prayers for protection, for deliverance, for mercy. It has been said that they are "the whole of the hearts of man". The Psalms are the revealed word of God.
They are the songs and prayers which were used by the ancient Jews, the prayers which were prayed by Jesus, Mary, the Apostles and which are still prayed daily today by millions.
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