In Matthew's Bible, the passage of the Psalms (xci.
In his leisure he began to translate the Psalms into Latin verse.
Bucer is said to have written ninety-six treatises, among them a translation and exposition of the Psalms and a work Deregno Christi.
In the Breviary the psalms are arranged according to a disposition dating from the 8th century, as follows.
From about the 4th century certain psalms began to be grouped together, a process that was furthered by the monastic practice of daily reciting the 150 psalms.
In the early days of Christian worship, when Jewish custom was followed, the Bible furnished all that was thought necessary, containing as it did the books from which the lessons were read and the psalms that were recited.
The Proprium Sanctorum contains the lessons, psalms and liturgical formularies for saints' festivals, and depends on the days of the secular month.
I have heard of Scotch soldiers in distant countries just bursting out crying, when they heard by chance a bit repeated o' the Psalms of David.
Sutherland--ask him whether he has found anything among his philosophy, and science, and the new-fangled leeterature of the day that comes so near to his heart as a verse of the old Psalms that he learnt as a boy.
It is a great peety," said he, "that you in the south are not brought up as children to be familiar with the Scotch version of the Psalms of David.
There were some massy members of the church, Takers of tithes, and makers of good matches, And several who sung fewer psalms than catches.
They passed the rest of the night in singing psalms of thanksgiving, and in the morning they wished to conduct him to St. Martin.
Passages from the Psalms of David which predict the end of the world and the last judgment.
About His resurrection also the oracles of the Psalms are by no means silent.
Whether all the things prophesied in the Psalms concerning Christ and His Church should be taken up in the text of this work.
And now I see it may be expected of me that I shall open up in this part of this book what David may have prophesied in the Psalms concerning the Lord Jesus Christ or His Church.
And though they often reveal mistaken ideas in astronomy, yet religiously and poetically the Psalms contain the finest possible conceptions of the material universe.
Whoever approaches the Psalms in the spirit of the Master will find them fat with spiritual meat.
The Hebrew Psalms were lived out, and suffered out, through the life of a people that had looked with straining eyes from many a Mount Pisgah, and had lifted a pitiful cry from many a valley of Hinnom.
And among these deposits were the Psalmsthat have never ceased to enrich human experience.
The Psalms For richness of spiritual content, for loftiness of expression, and for intimacy of communion with God, no other book in the world equals the Psalms.
However, when we consider the ruthless exploitation to which Israel was so long exposed, it is most remarkable that the Psalms contain so little of this evil note.
The Psalms were not made to order but, like his hymn, grew out of peculiar experiences.
The first few Psalms were exceedingly comfortable to me.
Resumed my Hebrew studies; on the two first days translated the eight first Psalms into Persian, the last all day long thinking about the word Higgaion in the 9th Psalm.
Be filled with the Spirit; speaking one to another in psalmsand hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord" (Eph.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts unto God" (Col.
Now turn the Psalms of David ower, And lilt wi' holy clangor; Of double verse come gie us four, And skirl up the Bangor.
Thou art as safe here, as if singing psalms in a convent.
This state is described at large, in Psalms 6 and 38.
This character of inward repentance is eminently set forth in the Psalms of David, and particularly in those termed Penitential.
Verily, all this can never proceed from a gay, trifling, and light mind; of this the evidence may be found in the seven Penitential Psalms of David.
For they did not sing all the Psalms to the same instrument, but adapted their instruments to their subject, whether it were cheerful or sorrowful.
Sixthly, the nature and properties of the Psalms prove the same thing.
From this some imagine that the Songs of Degrees, as some of the Psalms are called, took their names.
All these considerations prove that there is a great virtue or efficacy in psalms and hymns of praise.
Thus holy David in many Psalmsstirs up his soul, and all the powers thereof, to praise his God with thanksgiving.
They allege the experience of seamen, who sound the bottom of the sea; and explain those passages of the Psalms which mention the separation of the waters of the dry land, as Moses describes it.
But he contended that this latter spirit was the spirit of charcoal, which would have produced the same effect, had the young men been chaunting psalms instead of incantations: and acquitted the devil of all direct concern in the business.
As a transparency on some night of public rejoicing, seen by common day, with the lamps from within removed--even such would the Psalms be to me uninterpreted by the Gospel.
The Word in St. John and the Name of the Most High in the Psalms are equivalent terms.
Psalms he invokes the bitterest curses on his enemies; therefore it is not to be believed that the love of God toward us was manifested in sending his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him (1 John iv.
We read our psalmsand lessons, and our Christian Year, which was more and more the lodestar of our feelings.
Chants and Psalms and Lessons and prayers going on their course as usual, but every now and then in the pauses of the organ, a howl or yell of the voice of the multitude would break on the ear through the thick walls.
When the two had disappeared, Emily, no longer restraining her tears, told me that she had exchanged Prayer-books with him, and they were to read the Psalms at the same time every day.
However, they certainly have and privately read a book which they call the Psalms of David, in Arabic and Persian, to which are added some prayers of Moses, Jonas, and others.
D'Herbelot says it contains not the samePsalms which are in our Psalter, being no more than an extract from thence mixed with other very different pieces.
This is clear, above all, from the fact that repetition is most pronounced particularly in thosepsalms and prophetic songs which are of the nature of a prayer of petition and of the praises closely connected with it.
They have been called "the Penitential Psalms," from their striking likeness to some of those psalms in which King David confesses his iniquities and humbles himself before the Lord.
Although the French version of the Psalms was at first used by Catholics as well as Protestants, there is little doubt that Goudimel had embraced the new faith.
Infinitely more important is another collection of vocal pieces, a setting of the celebrated French version of the Psalms by Marot and Beza published in 1565.
Others were adopted by the German Lutherans, a German imitation of the French versions of the Psalms in the same metres having been published at an early date.
As the language of England gradually changed, new versions of the Psalms were made, and most of the Bible was known in a version made before 1360.
King Alfred was translating thePsalms when he died, in A.
There the Drumquhat training made him easily first of those who repeated psalms and said their Catechism.
It was a mere fancy; but I listened to the soughing murmur with the thought that they were reciting to each other some of his best psalms of praise and thanksgiving.
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