 The book of Psalms is the original hymnal, an anthology of ancient poetry traversing the human experience in the life of faith and doubt. Divided into five sections, likely to imitate the five-fold division of the Torah, the Psalms open by calling the reader to a life of obedience. They climax at Psalm 73 with a crisis when divine faithfulness is in doubt, and they conclude with faith's triumph, praising God not for God's rewards, but for God's being.