Kingdom of God
Our Lord’s Prayer
Similarities
“Our Father in heaven,”
“Our Father” Shows a relationship with
God and is praising
“hallowed be your name”
Praising God as holy
“but deliver us from evil”
Keep us free from sin and temptations
Differences
“O Lord, how many are my foes!
Many are rising against me;
many are saying to me,
‘There is no help for you in God.’”
The first line is lament
“and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass
against us,”
Psalm 3
“But you, O Lord, are a shield
around me,”
Also shows a relationship with God and
is praising.
“​and he answers me from his holy
hill”
Also praising God as holy
“Rise up, O Lord!
Deliver me, O my God!”
“Deliverance belongs to the Lord;”
Keep me free from sin and temptations
“Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name”
The first line is praise
“Rise up, O Lord!
Deliver me, O my God!
For you strike all my enemies on
the cheek;
you break the teeth of the
wicked”
 God will punish our enemies
We should be forgiving and God will
forgive us

I chose to compare The Lord’s Prayer the Psalm 3 scripture. I chose this because I thought it
had a different overall tone than The Lord’s Prayer and I was interested by it. Psalm 3 has both
praising and lament statements. The Lord’s Prayer is mostly all praise to God consistently which
made it interesting to compare them. Psalm 3 starts off more lament how it states that there are
many foes that say God will not help. Then it switches more towards praise saying that God is
the one to lift their spirits and it holy. The rest of the scripture is mostly praise, but it could be
open to interpretation. The Lord’s Prayer is more based on God and his forgiveness and how
you should forgive your foes, while Psalm 3 is more of an uproar towards those foes and seems
to show anger towards them.

The Lord’s Prayer shows a distinctively Christian outlook because it is focusing on some of the
key aspects that Christians typically focus on most. That is God’s kingdom in heaven,
forgiveness, and to be kept from all sins and evil. It doesn’t focus on raw emotion like some of
the other scriptures. Some of the Psalms show a lot of emotion and lament. Lament Psalms
tend to make Christians uncomfortable because of the emotions which means that it is much
easier to praise God instead. It is also a lot more hopeful to use a Psalm that is more focused
on positive values than negative one associated with emotion.