A while back, this blog compiled a list of the Chida's segulot/uses for each chapter of Tehillim, but 119 was left out due to the need to list the verses for each segulah. I kept putting it off because it seemed like a lot of work in my mind, but then I encountered a particularly large and scary fast-moving spider.
After spraying it to death, I thought about the message of the spider.
In Perek Shirah, the smamit is often translated as a spider. (It is also translated as some kind of small lizard.) Either way, the smamit sings Tehillim 150:5:
After spraying it to death, I thought about the message of the spider.
In Perek Shirah, the smamit is often translated as a spider. (It is also translated as some kind of small lizard.) Either way, the smamit sings Tehillim 150:5:
הַלְלוּהוּ בְצִלְצְלֵי-שָׁמַע; הַלְלוּהוּ, בְּצִלְצְלֵי תְרוּעָה
HalleluHu b'tziltzelei shama; halleluHu b'tziltzelei truah
Praise Him with loud-sounding cymbals; praise Him with clanging cymbals.
- Metzudat David says tziltzalim (cymbals) produce a sound that travels far.
- Malbim says that teruah (trumpeting) represents fear of punishment (yirat onesh), but this fear will be mixed with joy.
- The Metsudah Tehillim references Rav Shimshon Raphael Hirsch's commentary, which explains that these cymbals produce an extremely loud sound meant to call large groups to "attentive participation" in praising Hashem.
And what better way to praise Hashem than through Tehillim?
So I thought maybe it was a nudge to get my act together and finish this list.
And guess what? Sorting out the rest of 119 wasn't difficult at all. Anyway, I'd already done most of it for the list of Tehillim for various ailments. So I don't know what I was thinking.
If you want to know more about the segulot, please see previous posts:
A List of Specific Tehillim for Different Ailments of Body and Soul
Update on the Source for Tehillim Segulot/Uses
To download the entire list as a PDF, please press here:
If you haven't downloaded it already, here is the list of the Tehillim that applies to specific ailments (please press the button):
Please remember that all these chapters are good and holy, so if for example you meant to say the chapter for your right ear and you end up saying the chapter for the right nostril instead, that's okay. Both beg Hashem for mercy from pursuers and both affirm Hashem's compassion and loving-kindness.
So here's the full list:
So here's the full list:
List of Segulot/Uses for 150 Chapters of Tehillim/Psalms
1 -- for a woman who miscarries (or tends to miscarry a pregnancy)
2 -- for a storm at sea
3 -- for shoulder pain and head pain
4 -- good for every need
5 -- for an evil spirit/mood
6 -- for eye illness
7 -- to make your haters go away
8 -- to find favor (limtzo chen)
9 -- for a sick child
10 -- for anyone who has haters
11 -- to get rid of enemies
12 -- to prevent weakness
13 -- to be saved from a strange death
14 -- for fear (paranoia?)
15 -- to slay a demon
16 -- to make known (l'farsem) a thief
17 -- to say out on the road
18 -- to be rescued from kings
19 -- for wisdom
20 -- good for judgement (din)
21 -- for one who is going before a ruler
22 -- for every kind of trouble (tzaar)
23 -- to ask a question via a dream (she'alat chalom)
24 -- to be rescued from a flood of water
25 -- for every thing
26 -- for trouble and danger
27 -- for wild/dangerous animals
28 -- for prayer
29 -- for an evil spirit/dark mood
30 -- for every bad thing
31 -- for an evil eye (ayin hara)
32 -- to request mercy/compassion (rachamim)
33 -- for a woman whose children have died, may Hashem have mercy
34 -- to go on one's way (i.e. a journey, traveling)
35 -- if adversaries have risen up against you
36 -- to annihilate the evil ones
37 -- for a drunkard
38 -- if one has given you bad advice
39 -- for one who is fasting
40 -- to be rescued from an evil spirit/dark mood
41 -- if you have been fired from your employment
42 -- to build the Beit Hamikdash
43 -- to build the Beit Hamikdash
44 -- to be saved from the hand of an enemy
45 -- for one who has an evil wife (presumably, one could say this for an evil husband too)
46 -- if a person hates his wife (ditto)
47 -- for repentance (teshuvah)
48 -- so that one's haters will be afraid of him
49 -- for a kedachat (a type of fever, malaria)
50 -- to be saved from bandits
51 -- for one who is defiled with znut
52 -- to prevent one from speaking lashon hara
53 -- to frighten your haters
54 -- to take revenge on your enemies
55 -- for all evil
56 -- to one who is imprisoned in chains (presumably, this includes handcuffs, etc.)
57 -- for success
58 -- for a bad dog
59 -- for the evil inclination (l'yetzer hara)
60 -- for one who is going to war
61 -- if you fear to sit at home
62 -- to be said after Mincha and after Maariv
63 -- to succeed in trade, merchandise
64 -- to cross a river
65 -- if you want something from another person
66 -- for whoever has a "mood," a ruach (like a depression or a particularly black mood)
67 -- for a chronic kedachat (fever)
68 -- for a bad spirit/dark mood (ruach ra)
69 -- for one who is covetous and lecherous
70 -- for war
71 -- to find favor (limtzo chen)
72 -- to find favor & loving-kindness (limtzo chen v'chessed)
73 -- to be saved from fear
74 -- if you have haters
75 -- to humble one's pride
76 -- to be saved from fire and water
77 -- so as not to fall in a day of trouble
78 -- to find favor & loving-kindness (chen v'chessed) in the eyes of the government/authorities/rulership
79 -- to subjugate one's haters
80 -- to prevent one from idolatry/occult worship/heresy
81 -- also to prevent one from idolatry/occult worship/heresy
82 -- to succeed in your mission/errand
83 -- for war
84 -- for one whose body has become thin from illness
85 -- to appease/satisfy a friend
86 -- to be saved from a bad spirit (ruach ra)
87 -- good for providing salvation to the city
88 -- also good for providing salvation to the city
89 -- for one who is losing his limbs (i.e., leprosy, amputation, gangrene, frostbite)
90 -- for a lion
91 -- for a bad spirit/dark mood (ruach ra)
92 -- to see great miracles
93 -- to be victorious against one who is suing
94 -- if your haters are persecuting you
95 -- to prevent one's fellow citizens from leading one astray
96 -- to gladden one's family members
97 -- also to gladden one's family members
98 -- to place peace between one person and another
99 -- to be genuinely pious (chasid)
100 -- to be victorious over one's enemies
101 -- for a bad spirit/dark mood (ruach ra)
102 -- for a barren woman
103 -- also for a barren woman
104 -- to distance one who causes harm
105 -- for a fourth kedachat
106 -- for a third kedachat
107 -- for a chronic kedachat
108 -- for success
109 -- if your haters have been oppressing you
110 -- for your haters to make peace with you
111 -- to increase the amount of people who love you (i.e., to multiply friends)
112 -- to increase your strength
113 -- for heresy
114 -- for one who is zavin and mezavin
115 -- to debate/argue with heretics
116 -- so as not to die a strange death
117 -- for one who has been slandered baselessly (i.e. unfounded accusations, etc)
118 -- to give an answer to an apikorus (a heretic, a skeptic)
119:1-8 (alef) -- if you want to be the emissary of a particular mitzvah
119:9-16 (bet) -- for forgetfulness
119:17-24 (gimmel) -- for the right eye
119:25-32 (dalet) -- for the left eye
119:33-40 (hei) -- to be protected from sin
119:41-48 (vav) -- to intimidate a ruler
119:49-56 (zayin) -- for the spleen
119:57-64 (chet) -- for the upper stomach
119:65-72 (tet) -- for the right and left kidneys
119:73-80 (yud) -- for people to view you favorably, be nice to you (l'chasda)
119:81-88 (kaf) -- for the right nostril
119:89-96 (lamed) -- to sweeten or nullify negative judgement
119:97-104 (mem) -- for the right hand
119:105-112 (nun) -- for traveling, a journey, going out on a road
119:113-120 (samech) -- to request one's needs
119:121-128 (ayin) -- for the left hand
119:129-137 (pei) -- for the left nostril
119:137-144 (tzadei) -- to destroy one's haters
119:145-152 (kuf) -- for the left leg/foot
119:153-160 (reish) -- for the right ear
119:161-168 (shin) -- for the head
119:169-176 (taf) -- for the left ear
120 -- to make peace
121 -- to go out alone at night
122 -- for a slave who ran away
123 -- to travel by ship
124 -- to travel by ship
125 -- for enemies
126 -- for a woman whose children have died
127 -- for a newborn
128 -- for a pregnant lady
129 -- for something connect to a mitzvah
130 -- if one wants to travel by ship
131 -- for one who is prideful
132 -- to break a vow
133 -- to cultivate love from those whom you love (l'kiyum ahavat ahuvim)
134 -- to say before learning
135 -- for one who has thoughts of idolatry/occult worship
136 -- to admit to intentional, calculated sins
137 -- to remove hatred
138 -- to remove pride/arrogance
139 -- to place love between a man and his wife
140 -- for hatred that is between a man and his wife (the Hebrew wording seems to imply that this is more for a couple in which the hatred is coming specifically from the husband toward his wife -- bein ish l'ishto -- rather than mutual hatred or hatred coming from the wife)
141 -- for heart pain
142 -- for illness/suffering/pain in one's thighs/calves
143 -- for illness/suffering/pain in one's arm
144 -- for a broken hand/arm
145 -- for fear
146 -- for being struck with a sword (or with any sharp instrument, I'd guess)
147 -- for a snake bite
148 -- for a fire
149 -- to prevent a fire from spreading
150 -- to praise the Holy One Blessed be He for everything He does and has done
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May we all succeed in sweetening judgements and reaping much blessing.
1 -- for a woman who miscarries (or tends to miscarry a pregnancy)
2 -- for a storm at sea
3 -- for shoulder pain and head pain
4 -- good for every need
5 -- for an evil spirit/mood
6 -- for eye illness
7 -- to make your haters go away
8 -- to find favor (limtzo chen)
9 -- for a sick child
10 -- for anyone who has haters
11 -- to get rid of enemies
12 -- to prevent weakness
13 -- to be saved from a strange death
14 -- for fear (paranoia?)
15 -- to slay a demon
16 -- to make known (l'farsem) a thief
17 -- to say out on the road
18 -- to be rescued from kings
19 -- for wisdom
20 -- good for judgement (din)
21 -- for one who is going before a ruler
22 -- for every kind of trouble (tzaar)
23 -- to ask a question via a dream (she'alat chalom)
24 -- to be rescued from a flood of water
25 -- for every thing
26 -- for trouble and danger
27 -- for wild/dangerous animals
28 -- for prayer
29 -- for an evil spirit/dark mood
30 -- for every bad thing
31 -- for an evil eye (ayin hara)
32 -- to request mercy/compassion (rachamim)
33 -- for a woman whose children have died, may Hashem have mercy
34 -- to go on one's way (i.e. a journey, traveling)
35 -- if adversaries have risen up against you
36 -- to annihilate the evil ones
37 -- for a drunkard
38 -- if one has given you bad advice
39 -- for one who is fasting
40 -- to be rescued from an evil spirit/dark mood
41 -- if you have been fired from your employment
42 -- to build the Beit Hamikdash
43 -- to build the Beit Hamikdash
44 -- to be saved from the hand of an enemy
45 -- for one who has an evil wife (presumably, one could say this for an evil husband too)
46 -- if a person hates his wife (ditto)
47 -- for repentance (teshuvah)
48 -- so that one's haters will be afraid of him
49 -- for a kedachat (a type of fever, malaria)
50 -- to be saved from bandits
51 -- for one who is defiled with znut
52 -- to prevent one from speaking lashon hara
53 -- to frighten your haters
54 -- to take revenge on your enemies
55 -- for all evil
56 -- to one who is imprisoned in chains (presumably, this includes handcuffs, etc.)
57 -- for success
58 -- for a bad dog
59 -- for the evil inclination (l'yetzer hara)
60 -- for one who is going to war
61 -- if you fear to sit at home
62 -- to be said after Mincha and after Maariv
63 -- to succeed in trade, merchandise
64 -- to cross a river
65 -- if you want something from another person
66 -- for whoever has a "mood," a ruach (like a depression or a particularly black mood)
67 -- for a chronic kedachat (fever)
68 -- for a bad spirit/dark mood (ruach ra)
69 -- for one who is covetous and lecherous
70 -- for war
71 -- to find favor (limtzo chen)
72 -- to find favor & loving-kindness (limtzo chen v'chessed)
73 -- to be saved from fear
74 -- if you have haters
75 -- to humble one's pride
76 -- to be saved from fire and water
77 -- so as not to fall in a day of trouble
78 -- to find favor & loving-kindness (chen v'chessed) in the eyes of the government/authorities/rulership
79 -- to subjugate one's haters
80 -- to prevent one from idolatry/occult worship/heresy
81 -- also to prevent one from idolatry/occult worship/heresy
82 -- to succeed in your mission/errand
83 -- for war
84 -- for one whose body has become thin from illness
85 -- to appease/satisfy a friend
86 -- to be saved from a bad spirit (ruach ra)
87 -- good for providing salvation to the city
88 -- also good for providing salvation to the city
89 -- for one who is losing his limbs (i.e., leprosy, amputation, gangrene, frostbite)
90 -- for a lion
91 -- for a bad spirit/dark mood (ruach ra)
92 -- to see great miracles
93 -- to be victorious against one who is suing
94 -- if your haters are persecuting you
95 -- to prevent one's fellow citizens from leading one astray
96 -- to gladden one's family members
97 -- also to gladden one's family members
98 -- to place peace between one person and another
99 -- to be genuinely pious (chasid)
100 -- to be victorious over one's enemies
101 -- for a bad spirit/dark mood (ruach ra)
102 -- for a barren woman
103 -- also for a barren woman
104 -- to distance one who causes harm
105 -- for a fourth kedachat
106 -- for a third kedachat
107 -- for a chronic kedachat
108 -- for success
109 -- if your haters have been oppressing you
110 -- for your haters to make peace with you
111 -- to increase the amount of people who love you (i.e., to multiply friends)
112 -- to increase your strength
113 -- for heresy
114 -- for one who is zavin and mezavin
115 -- to debate/argue with heretics
116 -- so as not to die a strange death
117 -- for one who has been slandered baselessly (i.e. unfounded accusations, etc)
118 -- to give an answer to an apikorus (a heretic, a skeptic)
119:1-8 (alef) -- if you want to be the emissary of a particular mitzvah
119:9-16 (bet) -- for forgetfulness
119:17-24 (gimmel) -- for the right eye
119:25-32 (dalet) -- for the left eye
119:33-40 (hei) -- to be protected from sin
119:41-48 (vav) -- to intimidate a ruler
119:49-56 (zayin) -- for the spleen
119:57-64 (chet) -- for the upper stomach
119:65-72 (tet) -- for the right and left kidneys
119:73-80 (yud) -- for people to view you favorably, be nice to you (l'chasda)
119:81-88 (kaf) -- for the right nostril
119:89-96 (lamed) -- to sweeten or nullify negative judgement
119:97-104 (mem) -- for the right hand
119:105-112 (nun) -- for traveling, a journey, going out on a road
119:113-120 (samech) -- to request one's needs
119:121-128 (ayin) -- for the left hand
119:129-137 (pei) -- for the left nostril
119:137-144 (tzadei) -- to destroy one's haters
119:145-152 (kuf) -- for the left leg/foot
119:153-160 (reish) -- for the right ear
119:161-168 (shin) -- for the head
119:169-176 (taf) -- for the left ear
120 -- to make peace
121 -- to go out alone at night
122 -- for a slave who ran away
123 -- to travel by ship
124 -- to travel by ship
125 -- for enemies
126 -- for a woman whose children have died
127 -- for a newborn
128 -- for a pregnant lady
129 -- for something connect to a mitzvah
130 -- if one wants to travel by ship
131 -- for one who is prideful
132 -- to break a vow
133 -- to cultivate love from those whom you love (l'kiyum ahavat ahuvim)
134 -- to say before learning
135 -- for one who has thoughts of idolatry/occult worship
136 -- to admit to intentional, calculated sins
137 -- to remove hatred
138 -- to remove pride/arrogance
139 -- to place love between a man and his wife
140 -- for hatred that is between a man and his wife (the Hebrew wording seems to imply that this is more for a couple in which the hatred is coming specifically from the husband toward his wife -- bein ish l'ishto -- rather than mutual hatred or hatred coming from the wife)
141 -- for heart pain
142 -- for illness/suffering/pain in one's thighs/calves
143 -- for illness/suffering/pain in one's arm
144 -- for a broken hand/arm
145 -- for fear
146 -- for being struck with a sword (or with any sharp instrument, I'd guess)
147 -- for a snake bite
148 -- for a fire
149 -- to prevent a fire from spreading
150 -- to praise the Holy One Blessed be He for everything He does and has done
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May we all succeed in sweetening judgements and reaping much blessing.
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