Today we start at breakfast with Psalm 145 where David leads Israel in praise of the Lord. This poem is the first of 6 hymns that close the book of Psalms like a display of fireworks. The psalm is an acrostic, each parallel line beginning with a consecutive letter of the alphabet. One letter (nun) was missing, here.

According to some the book of Psalms is not in the order in which it was written, but is prophetic. Psalm 12=1912, 44=1944, 100=2000, 124=2024. Psalm 124 notes:

If the Lord had not been on our side (let all Israel admit it), if the Lord had not been on our side, we would have been swallowed alive by our enemies, destroyed by their anger. - Psalm 124:1-3

Just my opinion, but that fits this year for Israel. Other years in many ways fit the theory. When it comes to the order of them, the last few are songs of triumphant praise of God, which would fit nicely with Revelations prophecy since we know who’s going to win in the end. The individual Psalms themselves are acclaimed prophetic – especially the ones written by David. David himself on his deathbed declared that they were prophetic:

David, sweet psalmist of Israel:
The Spirit of the Lord spoke by me,
And his word was on my tongue. - 2 Samuel 23:2

The order was arranged by the Jewish sages. Since the Torah was 5 books they split Psalms into 5 divisions. In addition to this the Rabbis arranged the book in 7 portions, 1 for each day of the week. God's hand could have arranged the order as prophetic, it's possible.

Psalms are prayed as well as sung. Indeed they are read by the Jews on every important occasion; on the Sabbath and on week-days, on their feasts and fasts, in times of joy and in times of sorrow, in sickness and bereavement, at weddings and at funerals, when in peril on sea and when in danger on land.

Christians also, frequently repeat portions of psalms when in trouble (the 23rd Psalm in particular). Many claim Psalms as their favorite book of the Bible, this wonderful part of God’s Word finds an echo in the hearts of men of all nationalities. There is hardly a phase of human experience that in not found in the Jewish Hymn book. It has become a precious inheritance for us all. The sinner and the sorrowful, the happy and the grateful, we can find in it just what we need to express our situation at any given time. It lays bare to our view the sinful human heart, and shows us God’s solution, Psalms about the Messiah (Jesus), reason indeed to praise the Lord.