Other interpretations regard our psalm as a drama comprising three voices: a dramatic exchange of different characters who speak over the course of the unit.

This interpretation is preferable because it avoids the forced explanations of the other commentaries, who find it necessary to blur the transition from one speaker to another. However, it also raises a series of new questions:

  • What is the nature of the relationship between the various voices?
  • Why is the principal dialogue repeated twice?
  • What is the role of God in the conclusion of the psalm when Psalms is not a book of prophecies?
  • What is the significance of the dramatic form used in this Psalm?
First-Person
Third-Person
Repetition of Words, Phrases or Sections
Faith in God
Courtesy of the Virtual Beit Midrash, Yeshivat Har Etzion