Psalms 72:20

Compare the note in Job 31:40 which separates the speeches of Job from those of Elihu and Jehovah. As the Fourth and Fifth Books contain Psalms ascribed to David, this note cannot have been placed here by an editor who had the whole Psalter before him. Most probably it was added by the compiler of the Elohistic collection, to separate the -Psalms of David" from the -Psalms of Asaph" which follow, and to indicate that there were no more -Davidic" Psalms in his collection. The only Psalm in Book iii which bears the name of David (86) is outside the Elohistic collection, and is moreover obviously a late compilation, composed of fragments of other Psalms. For the term prayerssee Introd. p. xx. The LXX rendering ὕμνοι however may point to another reading תהלות, praises.