The psalmistssang of an ideal state to which their most glorious experiences but remotely approximated.
It was a fundamental article of faith for all the psalmists that a great Lex Talionis was at work, by which every sin was avenged in kind; and if one looks deeper than the outside of life, the faith is eternally warranted.
The theme which exercised earlier psalmists reappears here, but the struggles of faith with unbelief, which are so profoundly and pathetically recorded in Psalm lxxiii.
These last strains of the long series of psalmists are as if that band of singers of Israel turned to the listening world, and gave into its keeping the harps which, under their own hands, had yielded such immortal music.
Israel's consciousness of holding a special relation to God never obscured, in the minds of psalmists and prophets, the twin truth that all the earth waited on Him, and was the theatre of His manifestations.
Psalmists are never weary of drawing confidence and courage for to-day from the deeds of the Exodus and the Conquest.
The words of former psalmists were part of this singer's mental furniture, and came to his lips, when he brought his own thanksgivings.
The highest strains of the psalmists and the most fervent appeals of the prophets were progressively directed to the great end of praising and preaching the One true God, everlasting, with sincere and pure devotion.
The Persian poet is not far from the kingdom into which Hebrew psalmists and prophets entered.
The frightful wish of one of the Psalmists was fulfilled for the heathen world: "Set a wicked man over him, and let Satan stand at his right hand.
Of mercy and judgement" do the Psalmists sing--of mercy most.
To bring it home to the desolate and oppressed was a large part of the mission of psalmists and prophets.
Even if the methods of allegory were used by the Psalmists and the Prophets, we should not expect them largely to characterize the Gospels and Epistles; 1 Cor.
Philosophy had reached many of the same truths, and poets and sages bore the same witness to the unity and spirituality of God as the prophets and psalmists of Israel.
The Psalmists speak habitually of "the wicked" and "the ungodly," where we should more naturally speak of the qualities rather than the persons.
For the accuracy of these assertions or implications by a succession of prophets and psalmiststhere is a remarkable body of historical evidence.
The old prophets and psalmists saw as much as this; and preached that this too was part of the essence and character of God.
Neither do the Psalmistsand Prophets give the least hint of any such doctrine.
What the Evangelists and Apostles taught, which the Prophets and Psalmists did not teach, I hope to tell you, as far as I know, hereafter.
The Psalmists of old, yea our Lord Himself, tell you what will happen in each case.
The utterances of the old Psalmists and prophets concerning the ever-present kingdom of God are facts, not dreams.
To this question our poet, like the psalmists of the exiled congregation, had no other answer than that "The just will inhabit the land again, and the pious shall dwell in it once more.
The constant denunciations by the prophets and psalmists of the hard-heartedness displayed towards the poor and the helpless were no longer justified.
In the hot furnace of affliction and persecution the psalmists learned to appreciate the truths which they so confidently and effectively proclaim.
It is this, though, inasmuch as the psalmists and prophets were and are believed to have spoken under the inspiration of the Spirit of God, it is also something more.
Other psalmists and prophets have like insight into the future expansion of the nation, but this psalm stands alone in the emphasis which it places upon the idea of birth into the rights of citizenship.
The perpetuity of the king's reign and of his subjects' peace is the psalmists second aspiration (vv.
The same history which supplies other psalmistsand prophets with material for penetrating accusations yields to this one only occasion of praise.
To suppose that prophets or psalmists waged a polemic against ritual observances per se misapprehends their position entirely.
It was not exactly literary fame which psalmists hungered for.
But do the psalmistsobserve such accuracy in the flow of their emotions?
It was this which made the great Hebrew leaders, and the Psalmists after them, take it for granted that their cause was the cause of God, and that the Lord of Hosts was with them.
It is not necessary to emphasize in what consists the special inspiration of psalmists or of prophets.
The psalmists take some of the highest places among the poets of all nations, but the poetic faculty is directed to one great end, to reveal the soul in its relation to God, in its exultations and in its self-abasements.
The Chronicles and the later historical books, as is well known, were included in the third class of 'Hagiographa' with the Psalmists and Moralists.
Hence we find the Psalmists and Prophets ascribing natural processes immediately to God.
He was in accord with all that the prophets and the other Psalmists had believed of the greatness and goodness of God.
For when Bunyan and Augustine and Paul and the psalmists spoke of sin, they spoke not the thoughts of others, but their knowledge of themselves; they looked into their own hearts and wrote.
Here and there elect souls like thepsalmists climbed the heights whereon man holds fellowship with God, and spake with Him face to face, as a man with his friend.
And some of us there are who do not pray because, as one of the psalmists says, our soul "cleaveth unto the dust.
On this subject the Prophets and the Psalmists use language so sweeping and exceptionless as almost to repudiate the desirability of sacrifices altogether.
Surely this conception of law is a strange contrast to and descent from the rapturous delight of psalmists and prophets in the "law of the Lord.
The prophets, law-givers, and psalmists speak incessantly of how guilt brings doom upon the lands and nations.
Israel is the first-born among the sons of God, because his patriarchs, prophets, and psalmists first recognized Him as the universal Father and Ruler.
Except for these points, the prophets and psalmists insisted only on righteous conduct and integrity of soul, and repudiated entirely the ritualism of the priesthood and the formalism of the cult.
The Psalmists especially refer to the heathen who shall join Israel,(1306) so that Ger now becomes the regular term for proselyte.
Indeed, the Psalmists and the Proverbs had announced to the wicked their destruction in Sheol, and on the other hand held out for the godly the hope of deliverance from Sheol and a beatific sight of God in the land of the living.
The human members of this choir may be regarded as the last of the psalmists and prophets, and the first of Christian singers.
We have a tenderer and fuller revelation of the Father than had psalmists of old; are our aspirations greater after God, whom we know so much better, than were theirs in the twilight of revelation?
The psalmists had not the former, but, having the latter, they attained to at all events occasional confidence in a blessed life beyond.
Nothing stirs psalmists to deeper indignation than "God's great gift of speech abused," and this generation would be all the better for relearning the lesson.
The psalmists of Israel stood thus on their faith; and not in vain, surely, has Christ called us to be like our Father who is in heaven.
In the Psalms alone you would think that the psalmists scarcely suffer from anything else worth speaking about but the evil tongues of their friends and of their enemies.
For, at that supreme moment he had that inward illumination and assurance sealed on his heart that had so gladdened and sustained so many prophets and psalmists and apostles and saints before his day.
They had, indeed, a graceful ceremony, handed down to them from better times, as a sign that those words of the oldpsalmists and prophets had once meant something.
Music was to them an efficient agent to excite emotions of awe, or to carry more directly to the heart the rhapsodies and searching admonitions of psalmists and prophets.
Then, as Koch says, "the spirit of the psalmistsand prophets came over him.
This kinnor of David and the psalmists was a small portable instrument and might properly be called a lyre.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "psalmists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
