Praying is talking to God. It is dialogue with God. It is also singing praises to God. We pray when we are sad, when we are happy, when we are calm, when we are worried. Of all this we find many psalms. The people of Israel understood what it means to pray, and always kept in dialogue with God. He asked him for help when he was in danger, he demanded his silence when he thought that God was present. Each moment of Israel's history is represented in these one hundred and fifty psalms. As if it were a single person, the people of Israel prayed, and wrote his prayers, and kept them to leave us a testimony of his faith in the God of life, in the God of history, in the God of universe. We have here prayers that speak to us of the blessings of those who obey God, and of the end that awaits those who do not obey him 1.7,14,º8,37, there is a psalm that reflects the anguish of those who pray to God and seem to have no answer , 22, 42,43,55. There are psalms that make history of God's actions in the greatness of God, and the entire universe, to join the psalmist in his praise to God, 84,103,146. 150. The people of Israel made the psalms their book of songs and prayers. The
