Thus to believe, for instance, in the inspiration of the Old Testament forces us to recognise a real element of the Divine education in the imprecatory Psalms.
Another point in which criticism removes a serious difficulty is the interpretation of the imprecatory psalms.
Defn: A word used for cursing; an imprecatory word or expression.
The one redeeming feature in these imprecatory petitions is that they have always served the Oriental as a safety-valve.
The uplifted hand of the daysman between the conspirators seems to indicate the imprecatory vows which the two are assuming, in the presence of the gods, and of the witnesses who stand about the altar.
We do not claim that the imprecatory Psalms were David's best, but they must have helped him immensely in writing the other ones.
I shewed before how titles might be allowed; but this so circumstantiate, does not seem so consistent with his imprecatory prayer, for the Lord's avenging him on him, 1 Sam.
This is the deepest and truest sense in which we can still say the imprecatory psalms; and in these days of a philanthropy that often lacks the stern savour of righteousness, it is very necessary that we should make this sense our own.
The procession of priests, chanting hymns of victory and imprecatory prayers, is starting towards the auto-da-fe.
This is the last and the most terrible of the imprecatory psalms.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "imprecatory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
