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I hope to turn this into a repository of information about the Psalms as well as a place to quickly find and review Psalms I have memorized. It will have links to sites I have found helpful, some information I have learned studying Psalms, and perhaps meditations or expositions (of a sort) of my own on the particular Psalms I have found especially inspiring, such that I wanted to write. Most of that is to come later. This will also be, for me, a place to have the Psalms I've memorized collected and organized in a way I can review them systematically. I have memorized upwards of 20 Psalms, and I have begun to feel the need for regular review.

Here are the Pages on this Site:

• Information and Links About Psalms (Under Construction More Coming Soon)
• Psalm 2 - A Meditation
• Review L5: on Occasion - 1, 2, 8, 23, 103, 117, 134
• Review L4: More Than Occasionally - 27, 42, 46, 100, 121, 122, 126
• Review L3 Regular - 98, 130, 146,
• Review: L2 Frequent - 3, 14, 82
• Review L1 Near Daily Review - 19, 139, 132

Background/Why this site is arranged as it is

This space is a repository for the Psalms I have memorized, and it’s arranged for review. I want to implement a continuous review schedule (I expect the arrangement of this site may change). I will put the Psalms here so I can access them easily. I have also studied generally about the Psalms, and have collected some notes, links, etc., and I want to move those notes to a more organized space (Information and Links About Psalms).

Most Psalms are memorized in NRSVue (sometimes I thoughtfully change one or two words). And exception to this is Psalm 1. I memorized Psalm 1 before I started intentionally memorizing various Psalms. Aslo, I learned it in KJV as a child, and so I have it here in what I may call a "neo KJV version" (which was probably influenced heavily by the NASB1995). It was after that that I began memorizing Psalms, and I searched for the translation I wanted to use -- settling on the NRSV.

Using my times of insomnia and supplementing that with daytime rehearsing. I began the practice of memorizing Psalms. I had a short list of Psalms that I wanted to memorize to begin, and I began reading a Psalm a day thinking of whether I wanted to add them to my list. Initially, only shorter Psalms made the list. Psalm 103 (a favorite since childhood; verses 1-2 were recited collectively and often in my childhood church) was on my initial list of Psalms I wanted to memorize. Yet I didn't even try that one until I had success with several shorter ones. I have "key words" next to the Psalm number to help me recall by Psalm number the content.

All of these, at least at some point, I could say as if I were saying in front of someone evaluating me. But all, with only a couple of exceptions, need review to stay memorized.

Even though I said the Psalm must read poetically, I have taken out the poetic spacing of the NRSV, and made them like prose but with stanzas. I have freely done this as I see fit and in a way that makes memorization easier for myself. I memorize without verse numbers (the memorize App I use has the text without numbers), but verse numbers are in here. I want a place where I can look at a Psalm and zero in on the phrase/stanza I'm thinking about. Last, some have notes with them. This is just for my own cross-reference thinking part of meditating. I may add/edit any of these notes at ant time. All have key words in the heading/Psalm number. These are “hints” as to the subject/theme to prompt initial recitation

When complete, I plan to expand. I have memorized other passages, including The Beatitudes (hoping one day to memorize the whole Sermon on the Mount), The four Servant Songs of Isaiah, The Christological Hymn in Philippians 2, (and though I have not yet memorized it, I hope to add the Christological Hymn of Colossians 1 [vv15-20], as well as quite a few individual verses I’ve noted that I memorized as a child (and cannot really recite them now, but I'd to review and recapture).