psalmist

How To Use psalmist In A Sentence

• In Psalm 148, the psalmist speaks of all creation giving praise to God, their Creator.
• The psalmist had adapted this picture to refer to the spiritual offerings of prayer, praise and proclamation.
• Simple boredom is the sort you suffer from during long Christmas dinners or political speeches; "existential" boredom is more complex and persistent, taking in many conditions, such as melancholia, depression, world weariness and what the psalmist called the "destruction that wasteth at noonday"—or spiritual despair, often referred to as acedia or accidie. Accidie? Ennui? Sigh . . .
• When Jesus in the Beatitudes says that the meek shall inherit the earth, he repeats the psalmist's wishful thinking.
• Three-and-twenty years form a large portion of the short life of man, -- one-third, as nearly as can be expressed in unbroken numbers, of the entire term fixed by the psalmist, and full one-half, if we strike off the twilight periods of childhood and immature youth, and of senectitude weary of its toils. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
• But it is not the figure of any earthly personality, however noble and ennobling, which is the object of the Psalmist's contemplation. Brooks by the Traveller's Way
• Herbert's confidence and trust in the God of grace and love leads him to share in the same sort of intimacy characteristic of the relationship between Old Testament prophets like Jeremiah or psalmists like David and God.
• The biblical psalmist wrote, ‘Without vision, the people perish.’
• Music that Luther sang to the sacred words of the Psalmist.
• David is called The Psalmist because he is believed to be the author of the Book of Psalms